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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence