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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)