A Sixteenth-Century Wealden Blast Furnace
A Report on Excavations at Panningridge, Sussex, 1964-1970
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10999891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Crossley (0000-0002-6380-7106, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-68 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Post-Medieval Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-4236 • E-ISSN: 1745-8137 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/pma.1972.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2000821774 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The excavation recovered evidence for two periods of iron smelting; there were substantial surviving structures from a blast furnace thought from documentary sources to have produced pig-iron from 1542 until at least 1563 and, superimposed, indications of a later furnace built with major changes in layout at some time after 1563 but abandoned well before 1611. It was possible to compare, in particular, the application of water-power in the two periods and to sample ore and cast iron. The features of the first furnace could be related to references in surviving account books, and thus a yardstick may be offered for future fieldwork on undocumented furnaces of the period
Archaeology · Blast furnace · Cast iron · Excavation · Forensic engineering · Metallurgy · Mining engineering · Pig iron · Smelting · Yardstick · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Engineering · History · Materials Science · Mathematics · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2024 (46) |
| Highly cited | No |