If you look up the TD article on the internet and click on the video icon
you will get a short video of the site. The video address is:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Common%2FPage%2FVideoPopup_WM&SiteID=RTD&VideoID=1149192749770&c=Page&cid=1137834782329
Thought you might enjoy. Barb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunshine49" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Ironmasters Conference
> An article and pictures in today's Richmond Times Dispatch said the
> timbers were part of the base for a flume that sent water through the
> forge to power it. Since I know nothing much about ironworking, I have no
> idea what that means [other than what a flume is]. It said the newspaper
> also now has a "multi media presentation" about the discovery, whatever
> that entails [multi media?]. http:// www.timesdispatch.com
>
> Nancy
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:42 PM, James Brothers wrote:
>
>> Ironmasters will meet this year in conjunction with the
>>
>> 37TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
>> March 15th-18th, 2007
>>
>> Cavalier Hotel
>>
>> Oceanfront at 42nd Street
>>
>> Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451
>>
>> Reservations: 1-800-446-8199
>>
>> or on-line: www.cavalierhotel.com
>>
>> Ironmasters is a group of archaeologists, historians, and just people
>> interested in the history of iron making. This years meeting will
>> feature a bloomery smelt at Colonial Williamsburg (Saturday) and papers
>> on early iron making. The following papers are already scheduled. But
>> there is room for a few more. If you are interested please contact me.
>>
>> Lyle Browning (Browning and Assoc, Ltd.)- Latest information from
>> America's first ironworks, Falling Creek (1619-22). Just recently
>> massive timbers have appeared as a result of erosion of the bank. These
>> are 2-3' below Archibald Cary's Forge (1750-81). It is unclear at this
>> time whether these are part of the ironwork's warf, dam, or actual
>> structure. But excavation on the site should be underway prior to the
>> conference.
>>
>> Richard Veit (Monmouth Univ,) and Michael J. Gall (Richard Grubb and
>> Associates)- Two late 18th century bloomeries in New Jersey,
>> Leddell/Frost Forge in Bernardsville and the Mendham Forge in Mendham,
>> Morris County. Both date from the late 18th century.
>>
>> I will be giving a talk updating some of the information on the colonial
>> blast furnaces of Virginia.
>>
>> James Brothers, RPA
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