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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British