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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences