⇐ W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 26, 2006W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 28, 2008 ⇒
Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 27, 2007, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 2007 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
Content:- A Bloomery site in Rotherfield, East Sussex
- A Romano-British Bloomery site in Maresfield, East Sussex
- Three Bloomery sites in Fletching, East Sussex
- Two Bloomery sites in Brightling, East Sussex
- Telegraph Mill bloomery site, Icklesham, East Sussex
An Experiment to test Alternative Conjectures about the Covers of Ore-roasting Pits, by Jonathan Prus and Brian Herbert, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.6-10, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
Abstract:The ballistic properties of roasting siderite iron ore suggest that ore-roasting pits must have been covered during use. In the absence of archaeological evidence, the experiment described here was designed to test the alternative conjectures that such pits were covered with either mud or with green vegetation.
Richard Woodman - Ironmaster and Martyr, by Tim Cornish, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.11-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
Just to the west of Warbleton church lived, in the 1550s, a bold and radical man called Richard Woodman who ran either a forge or a furnace at TQ 603176 (named 'Woodman's). 'Firm facts are short for this site . . The Woodman ascription is unproven: he was active at this time, for immigrants made charcoal for him in 1549 and 1550 . . but it is not known for certain where he worked'. His entry in Straker states that he owned Woodman's Furnace ('a very large bay, by tradition the site of Woodman's Furnace') and also that he owned or worked Steel Forge and Markly Furnace at Rushlake Green.
A Godly Chimney Plate and other Firebacks from Brede, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.18-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
If the spirituality of a people were to have been measured by the designs they cast on their firebacks, the English, or at least those who lived and worked in the Weald, would have been regarded as a godless lot in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Before the influx of religious and classical fireback designs from the Low Countries, probably after the Restoration in 1660, English firebacks with religious subjects are rare.
Index, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, pp.27-28, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
⇐ W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 26, 2006W.I.R.G.: 2nd Series Bulletin No. 28, 2008 ⇒