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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)