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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging