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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence