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Gallery – Forest of Dean

View of Blaenavon Ironworks
Blaenavon
Blaenavon furnaces
Ian Standing interprets the site at Tintern Abbey
Tintern Furnace remains
Tintern-Furnace remains
Tintern wheel pit
WIRG Members in Lambsquay Wood

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PUBLISHED BY THE WEALDEN IRON RESEARCH GROUP

Adventure In Iron
The blast furnace and its spread from Namur to northern France, England and North America, 1450-1650; a technological, political and genealogical investigation
by Brian Awty
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The Wealden Iron Research Group

What’s On

  • EXPERIMENTAL SMELTING
  • Historical Metallurgy Society Festival of Metals
  • More Paintings of Early-Modern Ironworks
  • A smelt using the new reciprocating blower
  • GREAT PARK WOOD EXCAVATION – 2025 EXCAVATION DATES
  • Help Needed – Who owns Roman sites?

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