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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology