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SLAG
Unique ID: SOM-751EA5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Piece of waste material from a high temperature refractory furnace. The piece is silica which has poured from the furnace at a very high temperature. The surface has cooled rapidly into a glass like material while the inner has cooled more slowly to a opaque white material, thought to be high in silica. The surface material is opaque olive green. It weighs 60 grams. John Allen has examined this piece and suggested it may be a refractory or ball clay in the centre.
While pottery wasters have been found from the site this is evidence of a much higher temperature and modern industry and was almost certainly brought to the site after production.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 60 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 11th January 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 020892
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
Parish or ward: North Cadbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST6327
Four figure Latitude: 51.041155
Four figure longitude: -2.529123
1:25K map: ST6327
1:10K map: ST62NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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