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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology