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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
experimental archaeology


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
artefactual evidence

more comparative studies



Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
experimental reconstruction

Crafts