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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Conferences