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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)