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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts