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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British