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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence