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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone