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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Comparing excavated sites

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Recording artefacts in situ