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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)