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Conferences

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

More comparative studies

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ