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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Conferences

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)