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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction