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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag