EVENT Date 06-Aug-17
Description Celtic Iron Age
Goal Slag pit / demonstration
Team Darrell Markewitz
Dirk Spodeltuer
Richard Hiden
Shonna Johnson
Pete Hill
photos Kelly Probyn-Smith
FURNACE Type Slag Pit
Material clay / sand / horse manure cobb
Interior 28
Height 62
Stack 46
Base as 1 cm thick disk 16
Packing no additional
Tuyere hand made clay
Diameter 2.5
Angle -23
Proud 4
Air System shop vac
Extraction bottom via arch
MATERIALS Ore DD 1 (red)
Charcoal local Scottish types
CLOCK ELAPSED EVENT AIR CHARCOAL ORE
actual UNIT COUNT TOTAL Unit TOTAL
pressure LpM bucket kg kg kg
psi 1.75
1000 start wood splints pre-heat
1140 0 attempt to start air - problems
1200 T 2:00 air solved / fill with rough charcoal
1200 main sequence start ?? 2.75 2.75 4.8
1204 finish fill  0.25 3 5.3
1207 7 1 4 7.0
1214 7 air intake reduced by 50% ?? 1 5 8.8
1222 8 1 6 10.5
1230 8 graded fuel 1 7 12.3
1237 7 1 8 14.0
1246 9 1 9 15.8
1259 13 interuption in air flow 1 10 17.5
1307 8 1 11 19.3
1315 8 first ore charge 1 12 21.0 0.5 0.5
1325 10 1 13 22.8 1 1.5
1334 9 1 14 24.5 1 2.5
1341 7 1 15 26.3 1 3.5
1350 9 1 16 28.0 1.5 5
1400 10 1 17 29.8 1.5 6.5
1407 7 1 18 31.5 1.5 8
1416 9 1 19 33.3 1.5 9.5
1427 11 1 20 35.0 2 11.5
1431 increase air
1435 8 1 21 36.8 1.5 13
1444 9 1 22 38.5 2 15
1451 7 1 23 40.3 1.5 16.5
1459 8 1 24 42.0 1.5 18
1507 8 last ore charge 1 25 43.8 2 20
1514 7 1 26 45.5
start burn down
TOTALS
Charcoal 46 kg
Ore plus 2.8 kg tap slag 20.0 kg
Bloom no consolodated bloom kg
Gromps 2.94 kg
Yield %
Condition metallic gromps only
Quality