Yesterday a dozen or so Members attended a very interesting Workshop on the topic of slag! Neil Hall from Nottingham University yomped all the way from the vicinity of Norwich Station with a rucksack full of the stuff! How many of us can remember what it’s like to be young and fit!
Neil took us through the subject in a fair amount of detail, but without overwhelming us with the science, so I think we all came away with a much better understanding of exactly how the stuff is formed, what it looks like and how to go about identifying it in a systematic way. Hopefully a copy of his presentation will be available in due course as I think his basic ID flowchart will be particularly useful.
Getting to handle the various samples of slag from our Caistor trenches was very helpful and we should now be in a better position to suggest the origins of this material when we haul it out of the ground in the future. Chrissy was so taken by the material that she was moved to describe it as “beautiful” which produced few questioning looks from those of us party to the conversation.
Caistor Roman Project 2016 