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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts