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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts