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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British