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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Crafts

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)