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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Experimental Archaeology

Conferences

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Comparing excavated sites

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Just digging

Experimental reconstruction

Crafts

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