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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Conferences