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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

more comparative studies

 

 

Crafts

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)