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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British