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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Crafts