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Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies