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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Crafts

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ