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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

& just digging

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

experimental reconstruction