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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British
Crafts
artefactual evidence


Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
more comparative studies

experimental archaeology

& just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
comparing excavated sites
