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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts