Publications
Incised Lettering on Graveslabs, by D. Braid, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, article, p.48) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559] Download PDF
The Impact on the Weald of Boring Cannon from the Solid, by Douglas Braid, published 1987 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 7, article, pp.33-34, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560] Download PDF
Abstract:A number of reasons for the demise of the Wealden cannon-founding industry have been formulated in the past, but the most obvious is the fact that the Board of Ordnance ordered a letter to be written, June 7, 1774 asking all their suppliers "whether they will engage to provide guns bored out of the solid at the same rate in case the Board should prefer those kind of guns to them for which they are already contracted".