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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ