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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

more comparative studies

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental reconstruction

 

 

& just digging

artefactual evidence

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Crafts

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Conferences

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)