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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction