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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag