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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection