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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Documentary record search

Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence