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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)
artefactual evidence

experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)
comparing excavated sites

& just digging
experimental archaeology


Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British


Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone
Conferences
more comparative studies
