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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence