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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
comparing excavated sites


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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
Crafts
experimental reconstruction

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

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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
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