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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology