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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection