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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Comparing excavated sites

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Artefactual evidence

Conferences

Crafts

Experimental Archaeology