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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

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