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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

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

more comparative studies