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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts