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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British