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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Just digging