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Dear James, Was there any evidence for the production of iron from the Fussell sites in the period you referred. I am interested in all early metal production site up to 1850 as I try to keep a database of such site update for English Heritage anfd the Historical Metallurgy Society. I know that artefacts were produced but that is very different fro the production of metal itself. I know that there was metal production in the area earlier in the areas history, and the little that I have read does not convince me that there was metal production. Do you have a contact address for the BIAS so I can get hold of the papers you have published? Have you, or have you heard of anyone else carrying out analytical work on the metallurgical debris from the site? In particular on the metal and the slag. Currently, we have a Part II student working on late 18th and 19th rail iron and steel, but we are after any well dated metal and associated debris from the 17th century to circa 1870. Yours, Chris Salter Metallurgist/Archaeologist ------------------- [log in to unmask] Material Science-Based Archaeology Group, Department of Materials, Begbroke Business and Science Park, Sandy Lane, Yarnton, Oxford Telephone 01865 283733 Microprobe 283741 Home 772410 WWW http://users.ox.ac.uk/~salter * This e-mail message was sent with Execmail V5.0.x * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%