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Saxonbury Camp and Iron Slag, by S. E. Winbolt, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, reply, p.64) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Ancient Slag, by Ernest Straker, published August 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 3, reply, pp.95-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Ancient Slag [at Dallington], by D. MacL., published February 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 5, note, pp.162-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Iron Slag, by D. Macleod, published August 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 7, note, pp.218-219) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

The Use of Bloomery Slag in Blast Furnaces, by David Butler, published 1973 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 5, article, pp.10-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

In the bloomery furnace flux was not normally added to the furnace burden; the latter consisted only of ore and charcoal. However to obtain a bloom of iron it is necessary for the unwanted parts of the ore to be removed in the form of a free running slag. For this purpose iron oxide in the ore acts as a flux, and at the low temperatures prevailing in the bloomery a considerable quantity of the iron oxide content of the ore is required to form a free running slag. The iron oxide so used as a flux is not available for the production of iron and consequently the efficiency of the bloomery process suffers.

A Survey of Tile from the Roman Bath House at Beauport Park, Battle, E. Sussex, by Gerald Brodribb, published November 1979 in Britannia (vol. 10, article, pp.139-156)   View Online

One of the reasons for the Roman invasion of Britain was the hope of exploiting the natural resources of the country. It was not long before there was considerable iron-working in the Weald, especially in the area round Battle, East Sussex. Iron slag is to be seen at several sites, but little excavation of these has taken place. The best evidence for iron-working comes from Beauport Park, where a vast slag heap was discovered in 1862: much of this was removed during the 1870s for road-making, and there was no excavation of the site until the writer began work in 1967, and after three years' search found a building that proved to be a bath-house.

Field Notes: Bloomery slag in Wivelsfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1994 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 14, report, pp.2-3, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506561]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Medieval bloomery slag at Crawley, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1995 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 15, report, pp.2-4, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506562]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Bloomery slag at Peasmarsh, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1997 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 17, report, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506564]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Further finds of bloomery slag at Outwood, Burstow, Surrey, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1997 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 17, report, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506564]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Possible medieval iron working in Burstow, Surrey and Medieval bloomery slag at Loxwood, Surrey, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Bloomery slag at Heathfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565]   Download PDF

An unusual type of slag at Heathfield, by B. C. Worssam, published 2000 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 20, article, pp.12-13, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506567]   Download PDF

At the Romano-British Tilsmore Wood, Heathfield, bloomery site (TQ 5763 2174), visited in January 1999, some slag fragments attracted attention by reason of their brassy-yellow metallic lustre, rather like that of freshly-broken pyrite (iron sulphide), except that pyrite surfaces would be expected to tarnish rapidly once exposed to the air.

Field Notes: Bloomery slag in Netherfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2004 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 24, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506571]   Download PDF

Field Notes: Bloomery slag in Mayfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2005 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 25, report, pp.2-9, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506572]   Download PDF

Bloomery Slag from Newark Priory, Ripley, Surrey, by Judie English, published 2009 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 29, article, pp.11-13, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506576]   Download PDF