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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

more comparative studies

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Experimental reconstruction

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

experimental archaeology

 

 

Artefactual evidence