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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies