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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)