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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

& just digging

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)