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more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction