THE ASSESSMENT OF SLAG AND OTHER METALWORKING DEBRIS FROM ARICONIUM (WESTON UNDER PENYARD), HEREFORD AND WORCESTER 1993
Author(s): D Starley
Salvage recording undertaken along a pipeline trench near the scheduled site of Ariconium, previously known as a major focus of Roman iron smelting, produced over 220kg of ironworking debris and uncovered the base of a furnace. Visual examination of the slag showed the main activity to have been iron smelting, but some smithing, probably only to consolidate the bloom, was also carried out at the site. A small quantity of atypical non-ferrous metalworking debris was analysed by X-ray fluorescence analysis which showed that bronze had been melted.
- Report Number:
- 61/1995
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 10
- Keywords:
- Technology
