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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts