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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Just digging

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies