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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental reconstruction