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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British