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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

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artefactual evidence

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

comparing excavated sites