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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone