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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)