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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology