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Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental reconstruction


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts
Conferences
artefactual evidence


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search
more comparative studies

experimental archaeology

comparing excavated sites

& just digging