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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

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