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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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experimental archaeology