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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)