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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection