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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Crafts

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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