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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British