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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)