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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology