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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts