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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

experimental archaeology