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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging