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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)