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Wealden Iron Research Group: Second Series Bulletin No. 32, 2012, edited by D. W. Crossley, published 2012 (Wealden Iron Research Group, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

A bloomery site in Burwash, East Sussex, by David Brown, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.3-4, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

Crowhurst Forge, Surrey - a new site identified, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.5-10, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

Notices of Wealden ironworks in early English newspapers, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.11-27, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

Some years ago a selection of extracts relating to the iron industry from the Sussex Weekly Advertiser or Lewes Journal were published in Wealden Iron. The British Library has now made available, to readers at its premises and to certain institutional subscribers, scans of several early newspapers and periodicals and the means to search them. Because of the variety of ways references to the iron industry are phrased, and indeed spelled, and given that scanning early printed texts is subject to inconsistencies of letter size and variable inking, designing suitable criteria for searches can never be very precise. Identical searches do not always yield the same results. Searches for the phrases, iron furnace, iron forge, iron mine and iron works, as well as the various spellings of foundry, have yielded several notices relating to ironworking in the Weald which complement those noted earlier. Most are notices of sales and several relate to bankruptcies. Such notices were often repeated in successive editions as well as in other papers; only a single example of each is given below. Original spelling and punctuation have been retained.

The location of Etchingham Forge, by Brian Herbert and Tim Cornish, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.28-34, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

For over a century cartographers placed Etchingham Forge to the S of the railway from Hastings to London. The modern O.S. 1:25,000 map has followed this tradition, along with Straker and Cleere & Crossley. They have placed the forge at TQ 701266 near Forge Cottages (Forge House), and their Gazetteer entries cast doubt on whether a bay ever existed, since the railway passes through the site. The pond "if any", they say, is dry and the working area has "some incomprehensible banks". Recent fieldwork has shown that the working area of the site has been misplaced and was N of the railway, which runs through the pond. In fact, Etchingham Women's Institute identified the location correctly in their 1957 pamphlet.

Modelling business performance of a mid 18th-century cannon manufacturer, by Alan F. Davies, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.35-56, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

Even though historical iron cannon-making technology is widely described, very little information is published about overall business performance of cannon manufacturers. Instances of surviving trade and financial records provide insights into iron production and consumption. Unfortunately they give neither a sufficiently broad picture nor information uniquely about gun manufacturing. Furthermore mid 18th-century business financial recording methods were aligned more towards estate accounting practices focusing on recording and managing payments and receipts, reporting trading margins and cash accumulation in excess of any initial investment.

Corrigenda, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, p.56, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF

Index, published 2012 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, pp.57-60, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506579]   Download PDF