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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Experimental reconstruction

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Artefactual evidence

More comparative studies

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts