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experimental reconstruction

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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