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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction