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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence