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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ