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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Just digging

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences