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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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