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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag