The examination of metalworking waste from the Danebury Environs Roman Project, Hampshire
Author(s): Sarah Paynter
Small assemblages of possible metalworking waste were recovered from Thruxton, Grateley South, Fullerton, Rowbury Farm and Flint Farm, all in Hampshire, as part of the Danebury Environs Roman Project. The assemblages were examined in order to identify and quantify different types of waste, particularly those diagnostic of particular metalworking processes. The assemblages were consistent with iron smithing, which took place at Thruxton and Fullerton in the Roman period and at Grateley South and Rowbury Farm in the late Iron Age (and perhaps Roman period). Copper alloys also appear to have been worked at Thruxton. A number of possible floor-level smithing hearths survived at Thruxton and Fullerton. The assemblage from Flint Farm was not diagnostic of metalworking.
- Report Number:
- 47/2006
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 8
- Keywords:
- Iron Age Metal Working-Fe Metal Working-non Fe Roman
