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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag