HER 23503 DESCRIPTION:- The town of Coleford overlies massive and extensive bloomery slag (tapped and untapped) and smithing slag deposits which emanated mainly from iron-working in the Roman and Medieval periods. Some recorded, buried deposits are 3 metres thick. They extend along at least 3 roads to some distance from the town centre - southwards up Cinder Hill, north-west along the Staunton road and south-west along the Newland road. {Source Work 5938.} |