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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction