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Highly vesicular bloomery slag
artefactual evidence

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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
experimental reconstruction


Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies

Crafts