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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies