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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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