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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence