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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging