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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
more comparative studies

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
Conferences
comparing excavated sites


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
artefactual evidence

& just digging
experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology


Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)