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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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