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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Documentary record search

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)