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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)