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Photo Archive: Turners Green bloomery excavation 1968-70

A report on this excavation is in Wealden Iron, 2nd ser., 23 (2003), 6-21. See WIRG Database site 463

Early stages of excavation: photo W. Beswick
Stone sill during excavation: photo W. Beswick
Stone sill during excavation: photo W. Beswick
Line of furnaces during excavation: photo W. Beswick
Bloomery during excavation: photo W. Beswick
Retaining wall adjacent to furnace: photo W. Beswick
Stone sill facing furnaces during excavation: photo W.Beswick
Stone sill during excavation: photo W.Beswick
Roman? dam above site: photo W.Beswick

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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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