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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence