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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone