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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence