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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences