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Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

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Experimental Archaeology

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

More comparative studies

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Experimental reconstruction

Comparing excavated sites

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Artefactual evidence

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Just digging