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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


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)