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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Crafts