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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

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