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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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artefactual evidence


Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
& just digging
comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
experimental reconstruction


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
Crafts

experimental archaeology


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)