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Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 11, 1991, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 1991 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Cuckfield Furnace Site Survey 1989, by J. Berners-Price, R. G. Houghton and J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.7-9, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Due to the undergrowth on the site, distances and directions are deceptive, and for this reason some slight revision of the conclusions in Cleere & Crossley is necessary. The site is, in many ways, typical of Wealden furnace sites, with the probable position of the furnace dictated by the access for wagons, and evidence of water management in the arrangement of water courses.

Two Wealden Wrought Iron Hammers, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.9-11, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Two iron hammer heads bearing common features have been found at locations in the Weald: in The Hawth, a stretch of woodland in the centre of Crawley and at Bartley Mill Farm, Wadhurst. The one from Crawley was discovered by Mr D. Langridge in the roots of a tree in the side of one of the minepits in which The Hawth abounds. The minepits are believed to have been associated with Tilgate Furnace, which operated in the late-16th and 17th centuries. Details of the recovery of the example from Wadhurst are not known.

Henry VII's First Attempt to Exploit Iron in Ashdown Forest, by Brian G. Awty, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.11-14, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Rhys Jenkins showed that it was in preparation for his war with Scotland that Henry VII commissioned Henry Fyner to erect ironworks in the royal Forest of Ashdown in 1496. A recently calendared document in the Public Record Office shows that the building of ironworks in the forest and the employment of artificers from overseas had been contemplated by Henry five years earlier.

English Cast-iron Ordnance of 1564, by Brian G. Awty, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.14-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

These lists of cast-iron guns are both preserved in State Papers Domestic for October 1564. The first, concerning purchases of guns, was noted by Dr Teesdale in his book on Ralph Hogge. It comes from a time just over ten years after Hogge had succeeded Parson Levett as the principal founder of cannon in the Weald, though the document makes no reference to the person by whom these guns were cast.

Reconstruction of a Wealden Gun casting Furnace, by R. G. Houghton, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, p.18, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Iron-working sites in the Haslemere area, by Carla Barnes, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.19-29, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

A search for more facts about Northpark Furnace in Lynchmere parish has revealed information about other sites in the area, derived from checking and cross referencing the parish registers for Bramshott, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Lynchmere and Woolbeding. Of these, the Lynchmere register reveals the most information and the parish seems to have been a focal point for the district. It lies in the far north-west corner of Sussex bounded in the north by the river Wey, with the Surrey parish of Haslemere on the north bank.

Review, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, article, pp.29-31, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF