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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction

Artefactual evidence

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Conferences