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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)


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Conferences
comparing excavated sites

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag