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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection