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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

& just digging

comparing excavated sites

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

artefactual evidence

 

 

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Crafts

Conferences

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag