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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences