Hi Brian,
Stanley Grange has been excavated. An overview has been published by the
archaeologist who excavated the site: Challis, K., 2002: A medieval smelting
site at Stanley Grange, Derbyshire. Historical Metallurgy 36:1, 33-42.
Best,
Patrice
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Van: Arch-Metals Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Brian
Gilmour
Verzonden: dinsdag 22 juni 2010 13:13
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Onderwerp: Re: Geophysical survey of smithing and smelting sites
Hi Samantha,
It is certainly possible, and the best technique I know of is (topsoil)
magnetic susceptibility (Mag Sus). In effect this can be combined with
aspects of field walking - to identify what is there - and you can cover up
to 10 hectares a day, and it will work well for ironworking sites of all
periods. This can be backed up with detailed magnetometry to look at the
features - furnaces etc - below the topsoil. A really good example is a
medieval iron smelting site at Stanley Grange in Derbyshire, on the site of
a proposed open cast coal mine (I think) which I don't think it has been
excavated, and as far as I know the coal mining plan was shelved. I could
send you same images of this site but it would be best if it came from the
person who did this particular survey so I suggest you contact Tony Johnson
of Archaeotechnics (Noke, Oxon) who I work with and who may be able to give
you other examples. We are working on using this combination of geophysical
techniques to look more specifically at suspected ironworking sites.
I would think it is going to be fairly unusual to find sites like (the Roman
equivalent of) Stanley Grange which have been surveyed, identified but not
excavated. A particular problem is that a lot of the results of survey like
this will exist only as 'grey literature' and so be difficult to find and
get access to.
Good luck,
Brian
(Dr Brian Gilmour,
University of Oxford)
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Subject: Geophysical survey of smithing and smelting sites
Hi,
I am trying to identify smelting and smithing evidence at Roman sites
that have undergone geophysical survey using various techniques but
have not been excavated. Is this possible? Has anyone excavated a
smithing or smelting site where geophysical survey was conducted
before excavation? Any information you could provide would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Samantha Rubinson
PhD Archaeometallurgy
AGES
University of Bradford
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