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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence