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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Crafts

Documentary record search

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)