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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging