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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection