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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)