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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites