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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag