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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone