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Two Dated Bloomery Sites in the Weald [at Hartfield and Buxted], by J. Pettitt, P. Archibald and C. F. Tebbutt, published May 1970 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 5, note, pp.167-168) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

The O.S. 6 in. map of c.1870, by J. Pettitt, published Spring 1972 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 3, article, p.3) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Homan, My Homan, by Joseph Pettitt, published Spring 1972 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 3, article, pp.14-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Aliens in Wealden Iron Districts 1524-5, by Joseph Pettitt, published Summer 1972 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 4, article, pp.11-14) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Straker and Schubert both record the presence of aliens in Hartfield in and after 1496. Such aliens had come from the Continent to work the new (indirect) process of ironmaking in blast furnaces and hammer forges. The writers also made use of parish registers, none earlier than 1538, and naturalization (denization) lists dating from 1544.1 Neither made use of the Subsidy Rolls of 1524-5.2 These may throw light on the spread of the new process. They are taxation lists and comprehend a wide social range from gentry to labourer - and alien. Nobility and clergy were excluded, hence the term "Lay".

Pushing Back the Frontier: Part Two, by Joseph Pettitt, published Summer 1973 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 6, article, pp.3-5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Heathfield Furnace and Founders, by Joe Pettitt, published Summer 1973 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 6, note, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Much is known about the 'New' Furnace at Heathfield, because the Fuller documents have survived in quantity. But where was the 'Old' Furnace? The Lists of 1574 show a William Relfe holding a furnace in Heathfield. Where was it? Some of the Lists indicate that there were other water powered sites in Heathfield held by Sir Richard Baker and by Thomas Stollion. Is there a detective in the area?

The Domesday Ferraria, by Joe Pettitt, published Winter 1974 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 7, article, pp.1-3) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Domesday Book (1086 A.D.) mentions 'una ferraria' under the hundred of East Grinstead. This is the sole reference to ironmaking in the Weald at that time. In the Victoria County History for Sussex Dr L. F. Salzman translated ferraria as 'mine' but Straker acceptably suggested 'ironworks', i.e. bloomery. Dr Salzman added that the site was no doubt the same as that which was in the hands of Isabel de la Haye in 1263. He based his conclusion on an Assize Roll which recorded a lawsuit of that date; the ironworks was then showing no profit.

No Absolution, by Joseph Pettitt, published March 1975 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 15, article, p.67) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Maresfield Powder Mills, Furnace and Forge, by Joseph Pettitt, published 1976 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 9, article, pp.19-21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Such is Straker's title in Wealden Iron (1931), p.400. This is at TQ 460 227. In his text, however, he says the Forge was shifted and in his interleaved map shows it halfway up to Maresfield Corn Mill at c.465 331. He uses a Furnace symbol: his practice was to use this for a combined site, as well as for a furnace, but he makes no mention of the shifting of the furnace.

Scoria Lane, Framfield, by Joseph Pettitt, published April 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 18, article, p.84, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

John Collen: His Hammer-Forge in Burwash, 1524-6, by J. Pettitt, published 1978 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 14, article, p.10) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Wealden Iron in Maresfield, by Joseph Pettitt, published 1980 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 17, article, pp.8-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF