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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)