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The National Slag Collection is an important collection of industrial residues from archaeological excavations around the country. It was originally housed at the Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage (now the Centre for Archaeology) based at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth.
The material in the National Slag Collection is derived from excavations of all periods, and was mainly collected by metallurgists such as Leo Biek (who founded the Ancient Monuments Laboratory when state responsibility for heritage was under the control of the Ministry of Works (later the Department of the Environment)) and Ronnie Tylecote. The collection languished in various store-rooms for over twenty years since 1979, but since 2002 work has been undertaken with the support of the Designation Challenge Fund and the Historical Metallurgy Society .
A programme is currently underway to recatalogue the collection, eventually enabling it to be used more easily by researchers and others.
More information will be available soon.
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 Seventeenth century steelmaking slag 
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