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Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ

Experimental reconstruction

Conferences

Just digging

More comparative studies

Comparing excavated sites

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)