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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British