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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Just digging