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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Documentary record search

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British