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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Just digging

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ