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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Artefactual evidence