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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

More comparative studies

Just digging

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Conferences

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Comparing excavated sites