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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Artefactual evidence

Documentary record search

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Just digging

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Conferences

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Comparing excavated sites

Experimental Archaeology

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Recording artefacts in situ

More comparative studies

Crafts

Experimental reconstruction