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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag