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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction