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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection