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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence