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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone