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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Just digging

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Recording artefacts in situ

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)