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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction