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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Documentary record search

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone