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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)