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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)