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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

More comparative studies

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone