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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts