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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection