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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Conferences

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Just digging