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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone