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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)