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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection
more comparative studies


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)