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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)