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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Crafts

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)