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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ