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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

experimental archaeology

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies