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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)