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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence