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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology