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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
comparing excavated sites


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

