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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites