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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)