⇐ W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 17, 1997W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 19, 1999 ⇒
Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 18, 1998, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 1998 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565] Download PDF
Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565] Download PDF
Content:- Further bloomeries at Peasmarsh, Sussex
- Possible medieval iron working in Burstow, Surrey
- Two bloomeries in Maresfield, Sussex
- Two Romano-British bloomeries at Hadlow Down, Sussex
- A late-Iron Age bloomery at Waldron, Sussex
- A bloomery at Newenden, Kent
- A bloomery at Sutton Valance, Kent
- Medieval bloomery slag at Loxwood, Surrey
- Two medieval iron-working hearths at Crawley, Sussex
- The Domesday ferraria
- Bloomery slag at Heathfield, Sussex
- Stumbleholm bloomery, Ifield, Sussex
The Tudeley ironworks accounts, by J. S. Hodgkinson and C. H. C. Whittick, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, article, p.7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565] Download PDF
Abstract:Attention was first drawn to the accounts of the ironworks at Tudeley, near Tonbridge, in a paper by Michael Giuseppi. The ironworks were part of the 'chace' or manor of Southfrith, which belonged to Elizabeth de Burgh, the founder of Clare College, Cambridge, and grand-daughter of Edward I, and the accounts form part of a larger collection of papers, now in the Public Record Office, relating to the manor. The detailed records of the ironworks survive for two periods - from 1329 to 1334 and from 1350 to 1354 - when they were worked in hand by the manor. Between 1334 and 1350, and from 1354 to 1375, they were leased, and the manor accounts in those periods only record an annual rental payment.
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
Abstract: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.
Brass' casting at a Kent furnace, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, article, pp.48-51, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565] Download PDF
Abstract:Evidence that brass (i.e. bronze) cannon were being cast at a Kent iron furnace in the mid-18th century has survived in the form of a copy of an unprovenanced letter. The letter was one of a collection of copies and originals that were found in a flooded kitchen, in 1995, by Mr Christopher Taylor, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire. Unfortunately the originals were ruined, and it was not possible to discover the source of the letters. In spite of the obvious questions that surround its provenance, the information contained within the letter is of sufficient interest to make it worth publishing. The letter is from a mother to her son, who was undertaking a tour of the continent.
⇐ W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 17, 1997W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 19, 1999 ⇒