9th June 2011, 07:10 PM
gwyl Wrote:single ovoid ring which started life as an arc of posts.
what are your smithing sites like? any structure remaining or is it all just a load of slag and hammerscale? i had an anvil-setting, hearth, bosh and traces of walls; antecedant just had walls, floor and slags. manor was originally cathedral-holding used to support scholarsinterestingly enough Alsted was also Canterbury holding
c'mon show us your'n
Mine's busy being an old fashioned dartboard when they just had the doubles, although some T**T at some point in the past couple hundred years has taken out the bull with a ditched hedgeline - prob 10 inner ring, 20 outer, and looks like being properly circular for once, these guys may actually have owned a bit of string! - one side not been machined yet so only got 80% at moment. Makes a change from the cursus :face-approve:
When I say 'I', am effectively ghost-writing two of the sites with the ironworking stuff (although I worked on parts of both) - those two are both immediately extra-mural suburban sites (classic location for med town-related smithing), one of which seems to have been a semi-agricultural/semi-industrial set-up (no indication of 24/7 occupation), with area of flues, stakeholes and lots of hammerscale/slag/ash etc. Sadly none of the classic indicators as in Astill 1993. Other site I'm still getting head around site record, but buildings and there may be a raised forge structure, and will have to spend some time looking at some of the mystery pits and postholes. The third site is a load of cut med features (conveniently sealed under a ?13thC road surface) stuffed full of slag and a quite ridiculous amount of hammerscale, either in or immediately outside the boundary of, an abbey - mind you I've had counts of 500+/l from an early bronze-age cremation deposit which had been under a borrow in a field in the middle of nowhere, so that doesn't neccessarily prove anything! .....those damn worms....grrrr