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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Documentary record search

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British