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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)