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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

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)