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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
comparing excavated sites


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone