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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies