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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)