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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

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

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)