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Inventory of the Ironworks at Hamsell in 1708, by Anne Dalton, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, article, pp.8-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The inventory reproduced here was taken when Robert Baker, the owner of Hamsell Furnace and Birchden Forge, was declared bankrupt in 1708. It is mentioned by Straker but many members may not have read Miss Bell-Irving's Mayfield, Straker's source, and seen a list of the equipment and manufactured goods to be found in a furnace and forge in the early eighteenth century.

How Oldlands Roman Bloomery was really discovered, by Anne Dalton, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, article, pp.34-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Lower's account of the discovery of Oldlands by the Rev. Edward Turner is well known. What is probably not so well known is the story of how the Vicar of Maresfield came to hear of the slag heaps at Oldlands. This story appears in Miss Bell-Irving's Mayfield in an extract of a letter to her of 16th February 1895 from Dr. Prince of Crowborough.

Buttons, Wadhurst, by A. Dalton, published 1994 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 14, article, p.3, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506561]   Download PDF

In November 1991, Elizabeth Gibb, Roma Ogilvy-Watson, Liz Fairclough and Anne Dalton went to 'Buttons', where the owners, Mr & Mrs J. Bellingham had found what they thought was slag in their wood.

Dutch' labourers at Salehurst in 1566-1568, by Anne Dalton, published 1996 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 16, article, pp.19-23, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506563]   Download PDF

It is well known that the Sidneys brought German steel workers to England in 1564 to produce steel at their Robertsbridge ironworks and at Boxhurst in Kent (these were often referred to as 'Dutch'). Rhys Jenkins listed the names he had found in the Sidney papers at Penshurst as: John Frolycke, John Bowde, Gervase Krisker (or Brisker), Harman Bowde, William Folycke, Peter Kriskar, Adolp Zincke, John Ferderbecker (Federbeck), John Cromer, Jacob Scult, John Bearmane, Roquis Smorde (Rocus Smede), Semper van Loue, Harman Crine, Pete of Breckerfillde, Henericks, Corte, Powle and John Quakenberge (brough).

Burgh Wood Forge, Etchingham, by Anne Dalton, published 1997 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 17, article, pp.40-46, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506564]   Download PDF

R. F. Hunnisett, in his introduction to Sussex Coroners' Inquests 1485-1558, refers to the fact that there were several inquests involving aliens, French, Brabantines and Flemings, who were often found to have killed their fellow countrymen. One such case, in 1521, concerned John Ongerfeld of Etchingham, 'hammersmyth', who has been mentioned already by Awty, and Cleere and Crossley, as indicating an early start to iron forges in the Etchingham area.

Hawksden Forge, Mayfield, and the Sands family, by Anne Dalton, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, article, pp.39-47, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565]   Download PDF

The gazetteer entry for Hawksden Forge in The Iron Industry of the Weald refers to a Thomas Sands obtaining pig iron from Waldron Furnace from 1699 and being tenant of the forge between 1702 and 1719. There appear to have been, in fact, three Thomas Sands in that period, and a John Sands was tenant of Hawksden Forge between 1702 and 1727.

Swedenborg's Description of English Iron-making, by Jeremy Hodgkinson and Anne Dalton, published 1999 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 19, article, pp.47-63, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506566]   Download PDF

In Wealden Iron, Ernest Straker made use of an illustration of the Gloucester Furnace, Lamberhurst, from an 18th century treatise on iron entitled De Ferro, written by Emanuel Swedenborg, which had been published in 1734. In the original treatise the illustration accompanied a chapter on iron-making in England which included a description of the furnace, as well as of Wealden gun production, and blast furnaces and forges in general. No complete translation of the treatise into English is known to the editors.

The Penkherst family of ironmasters, by Anne Dalton, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.23-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

During recent work on the NADFAS Record of the Furnishings of St. Dunstan's Church, Mayfield, East Sussex, it became possible to examine and record a floor-slab to members of the Penkherst/Penkhurst family of ironmasters of Coushopley Furnace in the same parish. The last time that this slab was studied was by William Courthope in the 1840s, when he had had, so he wrote, to consult Sir William Burrell's notes in the British Museum in order to complete the transcription.