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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction