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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental archaeology


Documentary record search
more comparative studies

comparing excavated sites


Highly vesicular bloomery slag
& just digging
artefactual evidence


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone