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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction