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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection