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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction