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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences