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Figure 2: Section through the slag heap in Trench 2 GLIM A OLLE GID 15 PRUE UIP APPEL LEM. Initially five 1m-square test pits were excavated over two days in March 2012 to investigate hotspots identified by an initial magnetometry survey carried out by David Staveley. The test pits encountered a shallow topsoil c.120mm deep over the site. Below this was a much darker grey-black sandy clay with pieces of iron slag, and then below this was a more compact layer of dark soil with large quantities of iron slag and burnt clay, which were interpreted as being either parts of in-situ furnaces or the slag heap. We then returned to the site for 18 days between the 8th April and 3rd May 2013 fora more detailed investigation, excavating three trenches (Trenches 2 - 4). Two furnaces and a linear cut were excavated in Trench 4 whilst Trenches 2 and 3 each contained the slag heap.

Figure 2 Section through the slag heap in Trench 2 GLIM A OLLE GID 15 PRUE UIP APPEL LEM. Initially five 1m-square test pits were excavated over two days in March 2012 to investigate hotspots identified by an initial magnetometry survey carried out by David Staveley. The test pits encountered a shallow topsoil c.120mm deep over the site. Below this was a much darker grey-black sandy clay with pieces of iron slag, and then below this was a more compact layer of dark soil with large quantities of iron slag and burnt clay, which were interpreted as being either parts of in-situ furnaces or the slag heap. We then returned to the site for 18 days between the 8th April and 3rd May 2013 fora more detailed investigation, excavating three trenches (Trenches 2 - 4). Two furnaces and a linear cut were excavated in Trench 4 whilst Trenches 2 and 3 each contained the slag heap.

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Figure 1: Site location
Figure 1: Site location
Figure 2: Site plan showing area of archaeological intervention
Figure 2: Site plan showing area of archaeological intervention
Figure 3: Site plan showing all features
Figure 3: Site plan showing all features
Furnace [103] looking south-east Figure 4: The Middle Iron Age furnace
Furnace [103] looking south-east Figure 4: The Middle Iron Age furnace
Figure 1: Location and site plan The Powdermill Stream at this point runs through an increasingly steep- sided gill. Slag began to be found in the stream from TQ 7847 2011 and at TQ J. Prus, ‘A bloomery site in Brede, East Sussex, Wealden Iron, 2nd ser., 28 (2008), 7.
Figure 1: Location and site plan The Powdermill Stream at this point runs through an increasingly steep- sided gill. Slag began to be found in the stream from TQ 7847 2011 and at TQ J. Prus, ‘A bloomery site in Brede, East Sussex, Wealden Iron, 2nd ser., 28 (2008), 7.
Figure 1: A forge hammer assembly showing a hammer, anvil and hurst; detail from D. Diderot and J. Alembert, Encyclopédie, Tome 21, 4me section, Planche IV (Paris, 1765).
Figure 1: A forge hammer assembly showing a hammer, anvil and hurst; detail from D. Diderot and J. Alembert, Encyclopédie, Tome 21, 4me section, Planche IV (Paris, 1765).
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