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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

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