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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection