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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)