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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

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