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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Documentary record search

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British