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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British