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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British