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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

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