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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection