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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology