METALWORKING WASTE FROM CANTERBURY ROAD, HAWKINGE, KENT
Author(s): Sarah Paynter
The metalworking waste includes 1.4kg of iron-smelting slag, and a large nodule of ironstone that would be suitable as an ore, from Early Iron Age contexts. The smelting slag was probably allowed to cool within the furnace. 0.56kg of probable iron smithing debris was identified from a Late Iron Age context. Fragments of a number of small, triangular-plan crucibles and probably one large crucible, also triangular in plan, used for melting copper alloys, were recovered from Late Iron Age, and possibly Early Iron Age, contexts. Alloys of copper and tin (bronze) were melted, often with significant quantities of arsenic present, typical of Iron Age copper alloys. Traces of lead were occasionally detected in the copper alloy.
- Report Number:
- 34/2002
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 11
- Keywords:
- Ceramic Iron Age Metal Working-Fe Metal Working-non Fe Technology
