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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
artefactual evidence

& just digging
experimental archaeology

more comparative studies


Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
