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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences