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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence