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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology