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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites