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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites