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Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 30, 2010, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 2010 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, report, pp.3-9, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

Documentary and literary evidence relating to Burwash Forge and Wynhamford Mill, East Sussex, by Kate Mees, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, article, pp.10-29, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

This article has been adapted from a desk-based assessment, conducted as part of the MA in Landscape Archaeology at the University of Bristol in February 2009. The area of study consisted of a 1km plot, approximately 1.5km southwest of the village of Burwash. It incorporates the sites of Burwash Forge (TQ 6631 2313), which lies within the parish of Burwash, and Wynhamford Mill (TQ 6560 2235), across the parish border in Brightling. Documentary research has revealed much about the nature of the industrial activities that took place at these sites in the medieval and post-medieval periods, and about the families and individuals who were involved in these enterprises.
Research was carried out at the East Sussex County Record Office (ESRO), Lewes, at Hastings Library and online via the National Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a).
The author is grateful to the following for their assistance in the production of this article: Jeremy Hodgkinson, for reading numerous versions of the text and making valuable suggestions; Lesley Mees for help and support; Christopher Whittick, senior archivist at East Sussex Record Office, for locating relevant sources in the Ashburnham Family Archive (ESRO ASH/200a).

Pot founders at Wealden ironworks, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, article, pp.30-33, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

Pot founding was a skilled branch of the founder's craft which involved the production of castings in iron using box moulds. Hollow wares, such as pots could only be cast in this way and the skill in their manufacture necessitated expertise in making moulds that would allow iron to fill a shaped void within a sand- or loam-filled container. The fact that they were sometimes referred to as potters, as in the case of Stephen Marden, may have led to the Oxford Dictionary definition of pot founding formerly being incorrectly associated with the making of ceramics. This has now been corrected.

Addition to the catalogue of early iron graveslabs, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, article, pp.34-35, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

Some operating characteristics of Wealden iron industry water-wheels, bellows and tuyere, by Jonathan Prus, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, article, pp.36-43, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

The power delivered by Wealden iron industry waterwheels may not have exceeded 300 Watts, very little by modern standards. The data that lead to this assessment are archaeological and historical but they are limited in scope and number. However, the maximum and minimum power ratings are tightly constrained by other data that are more easily checked, notably by the chemistry of blast furnace operation (which provides minima) and by human physiology (which provides power maxima).

Index, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, pp.44-46, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF