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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)