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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging