The next event in the ‘Hidden Culture’ programme will hear directly from archaeologists about two recently excavated metal working sites within the Galloway Glens area: Glenlee and Balmaghie. Why was iron worked here, how do we know and what was it used for?
Both sites have undergone recent excavation and their metalworking history has the potential to date back to medieval times. Lindsey Stirling from AOC Archaeology will be talking about the site at Glenlee and and Louise Turner from Rathmell Archaeology will shed light on the work at Balmaghie. We’ll be discussing finds at both sites and what they tell us about Galloway’s past.
To book your free ticket for the online event (delivered through ‘Zoom’), click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-the-sparks-fly-two-iron-working-sites-around-loch-ken-tickets-254843863857.
This event is part of the ‘Can You Dig It’ project, overseen by Rathmell Archaeology. Claire Williamson, Senior Archaeologist at Rathmell Archaeology said:
It is often very difficult to identify actual metalworking sites because their traces are quite ephemeral and prone to erosion and loss. But the slags which derived from the impurities present in the ore are very durable, and their detailed study can yield insights into the production process. By looking at slags, we can determine whether smelting or smithing took place, and we can pinpoint the actual location of working through the survival of minute particles of hammerscale and slag spheres, produced when the sparks fly off in the metalworking process.
Galloway Glens Education & Community Engagement Officer, Jan Hogarth, added:
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