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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)