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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences