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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction