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Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction