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Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 6, 1986, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 1986 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Obituary - Charles Frederick Tebbutt (1900-1985), published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, p.2, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, report, pp.3-6, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The 1574 Lists of Ironworks in the Weald. A Re-examination, by Edmund Teesdale, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.7-41, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The documents often referred to as 'the 1574 lists' constitute the most extensive and important collection of evidence available as to the size of the Wealden iron industry in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, and as to the ownership, management and location of individual furnaces and forges at that time. The lists consist of a number of documents, all to be found in the State Papers Domestic of Elizabeth I, with the exception of one document of three folios to be found among the Stow manuscripts in the British Library. Several of the documents are, apart from the spelling, so similar in content as to leave no doubt that they are no more than copies. Others reveal significant differences, differences as to personal ownership or management, and the number of works or sites attributed to each individual. These documents have, from time to time, received comment by writers on the Wealden iron industry, but none of the studies made, although helpful in many ways, has been entirely without some confusion or imprecision. The present paper is a fresh attempt to describe, analyse, compare and evaluate the documents, firstly with the object of providing a clearer and more comprehensive guide to the lists than has hitherto existed; and secondly, of reaching some conclusion as to which of the documents contains the most reliable evidence about the owners or managers and the extent of the works they held.

Standford Furnace, Bramshott, Hampshire: A Case of Mistaken Identity, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.42-44, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Richard and Joan Isted, Ironmasters, by Brian G. Awty, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.45-49, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Rowfant Supra Forge, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.49-52, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Straker (1931, 467) and Cleere and Crossley (1985, 353-4) have suggested that the location of this enigmatic site may be downstream from the pond (TQ 319372) north of Horse pasture Wood. Both refer to small, inconclusive finds of slag in the immediate vicinity. This location can now be confirmed on the evidence of a manuscript map of the Rowfant Estate, dated 1692, at present in private hands.

Three Sites in the Tudeley area near Tonbridge, Kent, by Brian Herbert, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.52-53, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Two Radiocarbon Dates for Minepits at Sharpthorne Brickworks, by Giles Swift, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, pp.54-55, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Roman Minepits, by J. H. D. Stapleton, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, p.56, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Two kilometres SSE of the Roman iron-working site on Great Cansiron Farm there is a string of quarry pits near and on the southern part of Cansiron Lane between TQ 442373 and TQ 438363.