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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies