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Wealden Iron Research Group: First Series Bulletin No. 8, Spring 1975, edited by David Crossley, published 1975 (Wealden Iron Research Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

The Lists of Furnaces and Forges of 1664, by David Crossley, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, report, pp.2-7) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Straker's table of furnaces and forges in 1653 and 1664, (Wealden Iron, p.61) is derived from documents published by M. A. Lower in Sx. A. C. XVIII (1866) pp.15-16, and J. L. Parsons in Sx. A. C. XXXII (1882) - not XXXI, as cited by Straker - pp.21-23.

Inventory of Sites Visited by W.I.R.G.: Bloomeries, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, report, pp.8-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Inventory of Sites Visited by W.I.R.G.: Water Powered Sites, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, report, pp.12-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Inventory of Sites Visited by W.I.R.G.: Miscellaneous, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, report, p.44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Sussex Cannon in East Africa, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, article, p.45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

The Mystery of Withyham or Stonelands Furnace, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, article, p.45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

A great deal of intensive fieldwork by the writer, following on visits by the Buxted Branch of W.I.R.G., have failed to find any trace of Withyham Furnace. Straker could only surmise that the now existing large lake in Buckhurst Park (TQ 497 348) had covered all relics of the furnace and forge, and refers to a lease of 1676 when he thought that the site had been converted to a corn mill (see Wealden Iron p.253). Lower refers to the Bakers of Stoneland Park (afterwards incorporated into Buckhurst Park) having ironworks powered "by a chain of ponds still existing below the house" (see Sussex Arch. Coll. Vol.2 (1849) p.220).

Haxted Mill - Exhibition, by B. K. Herbert, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, article, p.46) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Broadfields, Crawley, by Eileen Horne and John Gibson-Hill, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, article, pp.47-50) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Broadfields is the first major Iron Age and Romano-British industrial settlement to be discovered on Weald clay. The site covers about 12 hectares (30 acres), with the main area of occupation spanning a shallow valley between a limestone ridge to the northeast and sandstone hills to the south.