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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag