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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)