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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)