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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence