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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites



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

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)