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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences