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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

& just digging

more comparative studies

 

 

Documentary record search

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Artefactual evidence

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Crafts

experimental archaeology

 

 

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Experimental reconstruction