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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag