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From: Roger Gelder <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Basic slag - fertilizer or? Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:00:46 +0000 Content-Type: Multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_29623_1141159238_1" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_29623_1141159238_1 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>Undertaking a=20 fieldwalking exercise of a 47 acre wheat field and have = </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>encountered several=20 items </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>of=20 slag. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This = particular=20 section of field, however, would have been flood-plain = </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>through-out the=20 first millenium and poorly drained for most of the = next</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>few = centuries,=20 </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>which would=20 seem to preclude any smelting work?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I note = that from the=20 1920s/30s slag is refered to as 'ground' but this=20 material</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>is = 'chunky' -=20 sections ranging from 3 to 10 cm, some plough-worn = (rounded)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>some=20 plough-fractured (angular). Colour is mostly black - some grey - = and=20 </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>one = larger=20 </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>piece=20 almost white with streaks of iron embedded in the = matrix.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Most = appears highly=20 glazed although a few pieces were almost = fibrous.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN = class=3D187074817-28022006></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>So, = what would the=20 first/original basic slag, used as fertilizer, have looked = </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D187074817-28022006><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>like, = please? Thanks=20 for help,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN = class=3D187074817-28022006> =20 Roger Gelder</SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_29623_1141159238_1--