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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)