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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)