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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
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comparing excavated sites

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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


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
experimental archaeology
