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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Artefactual evidence

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone