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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences