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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

comparing excavated sites

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences