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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone