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Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)