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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)