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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British