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Iron Production (iron + production)
Selected AbstractsSCALE OF IRON PRODUCTIONACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA, Issue 1 2009Article first published online: 5 JUL 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] IRON PRODUCTION IN NORTHERN BÉNINACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA, Issue 1 2009Article first published online: 5 JUL 2010 First page of article [source] The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and WalesECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2005PETER KING Errata. The Economic History Review 59: 1, 64 The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and Wales. An estimate made of the bar iron production in England shows two periods when production grew rapidly, 1540-1620 and 1785-1810. Both of these were related to the adoption of new technology-the finery forge in the first case, and potting and stamping and then puddling in the second. Imports of iron from Spain declined sharply after 1540, but those from Sweden became significant from the mid-seventeenth century, and those from Russia after 1730. Consumption grew rapidly in the late sixteenth century, and again during the eighteenth. Hence, the industrial revolution was the culmination of a long period of growth. [source] Archaeomagnetic investigations of Iron Age slags in Denmark,ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 2 2003Niels Abrahamsen Abstract In Denmark iron production, by means of reducing bog-iron ore with charcoal, was carried out at least between the second and seventh century AD. Since the 1960s magnetic mapping of iron slag remains have been used extensively at several sites in the southwestern part of Jutland in Denmark (e.g. at Drengsted, Snorup, Krarup and Yderik). A description of some of the magnetic surveying results, ideas of magnetic modelling, and magnetic and chemical analysis of slag from some of these areas are given. The Danish Iron Age slag pits are strongly magnetic, and consequently they are quite easy to locate magnetically. The slag, however, is often magnetically non-homogeneous, and accordingly the remanent magnetic direction of the original magnetization is not uniform. Hence individual slag pits are not good recorders of the direction of Earth's magnetic field. Therefore dating of individual slag pits by means of a magnetic mastercurve, using either inversion and modelling of the magnetic field anomaly from the slag, or by using conventional palaeomagnetic techniques by orientated cores, are still difficult to make with sufficient resolution. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Geophysical Investigation at the Falling Creek Ironworks, an Early Industrial Site in VirginiaARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 4 2001Geoffrey Jones Abstract A geophysical investigation was conducted at the site of the Falling Creek Ironworks (1619,1622), the first iron production facility in North America. Electrical resistance and magnetic field gradient surveys were conducted over the site of the seventeenth century ironworks. Additionally, ground-penetrating radar was used to investigate areas under an existing roadway. Linear and rectangular anomalies that appear in the resistance data may be caused by architectural features, possibly shops or domestic structures associated with the ironworks. Several low-amplitude magnetic anomalies that appear in the data appear to be cultural in origin, and may be caused by features associated with the ironworks. A number of high-amplitude magnetic anomalies appear in the magnetic field gradient data that are thought to be associated with iron production, including extensive slag deposits and the possible location of the blast furnace. Ground-penetrating radar data shows an anomalous reflection in the vicinity of the suspected blast furnace, which is partially beneath the modern roadway. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] |