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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging
experimental reconstruction

more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
Crafts
comparing excavated sites


Documentary record search
artefactual evidence

experimental archaeology



Highly vesicular bloomery slag