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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)