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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites