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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

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