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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts