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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging