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Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Documentary record search
Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction

Conferences