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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone