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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

experimental archaeology