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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)