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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging