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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag