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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental archaeology

 

 

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

& just digging

Comparing excavated sites

more comparative studies

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)