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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

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