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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
Conferences


Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search
comparing excavated sites

experimental reconstruction


Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag
more comparative studies

experimental archaeology

artefactual evidence

& just digging
Crafts