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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Recording artefacts in situ

Crafts

Comparing excavated sites

Artefactual evidence

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Just digging

Conferences

More comparative studies

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Documentary record search

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Experimental reconstruction

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)