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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

more comparative studies

 

 

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