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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

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