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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)