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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology