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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology