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Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 22, 2002, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 2002 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Two possible medieval bloomery sites in Alfold, Surrey, by Judie English, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.5-9, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Fieldwork at two high status medieval settlement sites in the Weald of Surrey has produced bloomery tap slag. At Great Wildwood Golf Course the slag was found close to a moated site and in a context insecurely dated to the late 12th or early 13th century. At Monktonhook the slag was found during field walking on a site known to have been occupied from at least 1325 until the mid-20th century.

Iron Plat, Queenstock hammer-pond and a 15th-century ironworking site at Buxted, by Pam Combes and Christopher Whittick, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.10-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Three tantalisingly early references to ironworks in Buxted have been discovered, the first two by Brian Awty and the third by Judith Brent, in the course of the last twelve months. The purpose of this article is to locate the furnace or furnaces mentioned in two grants of land by the manor of South Malling in 1509, and to establish whether either of the two Buxted hammer ponds rated for the new cut at Newhaven in 1537 can be identified with the same site.
The documentary research upon which our conclusions have been based, although far from exhaustive, has involved a minute investigation of the records of land-ownership, and only a summary can be presented here.

Re-dating an early document, by Christopher Whittick, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.18-21, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Among the archive of the Maryon-Wilson family of Searles in Fletching at the East Sussex Record Office is an undated book of instructions, partly executed, for a survey of the woodlands on the manor of Framfield (ESRO SRL 13/1).1 The document makes several mentions of ironworks, and provides an important means of dating the early operations in the Framfield area.

More additions to the catalogue of early Wealden graveslabs, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.22-23, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

The Penkherst family of ironmasters, by Anne Dalton, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.23-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

During recent work on the NADFAS Record of the Furnishings of St. Dunstan's Church, Mayfield, East Sussex, it became possible to examine and record a floor-slab to members of the Penkherst/Penkhurst family of ironmasters of Coushopley Furnace in the same parish. The last time that this slab was studied was by William Courthope in the 1840s, when he had had, so he wrote, to consult Sir William Burrell's notes in the British Museum in order to complete the transcription.

Bar iron production in the Weald in the early 18th century, by P. W. King, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.26-35, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Factors of production in mid-18th century Wealden Iron smelting, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.36-56, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Studies of the factors which controlled production at ironworks in the Weald have largely focused on data from a small number of sets of accounts. In the sixteenth century, the Sidney and Hogge accounts have provided the opportunity for detailed case studies, while the Fuller papers in the eighteenth century offer a wealth of detail. Other source material, notably the Pelham accounts and the papers relating to the Harrison-Legas partnership, remains to be fully exploited. In addition to these major sources, however, and although much incidental detail can be derived from legal documents and letters, it is the archives of the Board of Ordnance to which we should turn for much more than accounts of the purchase of guns.

Index, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, pp.57-63, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF