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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Just digging

Comparing excavated sites

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences