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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