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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

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