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Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Crafts
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
comparing excavated sites

Conferences


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
more comparative studies

experimental archaeology


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection