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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology