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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Documentary record search

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies