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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Conferences

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)