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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites