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Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)