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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

& just digging

experimental reconstruction