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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
experimental reconstruction


Documentary record search
Crafts
experimental archaeology

Conferences
more comparative studies


Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites


artefactual evidence


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)