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Just digging

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Crafts

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites