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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies