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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 732360
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/732360
NY37NW 6 3082 7787.
NY 307 773. Bloomery waste has been collected from a slag mound on Solwaybank.
A E Truckell 1961
A turf-covered mound of iron slag 4.5m in diameter and 0.5m high, located in open moorland at NY 3082 7787. It lies on the left bank of a dried-up stream on a S-facing slope. No trace of bloomery.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1970
The mound, which is as described, is now tree-covered and stands in a narrow conifer belt on the hill slope.
Visited by OS (MJF) 7 September 1979
