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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British