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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction