Rights Holder: Birmingham Museums Trust
CC License:
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
Unique ID: WMID-99F6B4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
Three irregular fragments of iron bloomery waste (slag) or fuel ash, of Iron Age to Late Medieval dating (800 BC to AD 1600).
All three fragments are light for their size, which would suggest that minimal iron metal is present within the matrix. All have a honeycomb structure, formed of solidified air bubbles.
The measurements are as follows:
1: Length: 24.53 mm. Width: 23.04 mm. Thickness: 15.25 mm. Weight: 3.8 g.
2: Length: 50.57 mm. Width; 31.64 mm. Thickness: 21.75 mm. Weight: 10.1 g.
3: Length: 31.00 mm. Width: 25.66 mm. Thickness: 19.56 mm. Weight: 11.7 g.
All together the three fragments weigh 25.5 g.
The process of smelting iron ore to produce iron has not changed much from the Iron Age to the Medieval period, so these pieces of slag could date from any time between the Iron Age (800 BC) to the Medieval Period (1500 AD).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 800 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 3
Weight: 25.5 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011 - Saturday 31st December 2011
This information is restricted for your access level.
Primary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SP3294
Four figure Latitude: 52.54292
Four figure longitude: -1.529585
1:25K map: SP3294
1:10K map: SP39SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
No references cited so far.