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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)