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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology