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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences