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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

More comparative studies

Conferences

Experimental Archaeology

Comparing excavated sites

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Documentary record search

Recording artefacts in situ