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Crafts

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag