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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Crafts

comparing excavated sites