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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


Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)
more comparative studies


Highly vesicular bloomery slag