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Photo Archive: Experimental bloomery at The Pheasantry, Wych Cross

An earlier furnace: photo D. Meades
An earlier furnace: photo D. Meades
Building a furnace: photo anon
A furnace: photo anon
Dennis Beeney breaks the ore: photo D. Meades
Roger Adams making charcoal in a pit: photo anon
Roger Adams charges the bloomery: photo D. Meades
Roger Adams and David Crossley pumping the bellows: photo anon
Roger Adams and a bloom: photo D. Meades
David Combes checks the charge: photo D. Meades
David Combes pumps the bellows: photo D. Meades
Brian Herbert and others at the bloomery: photo D. Meades
Margaret Tebbutt pumps the bellows: photo D. Meades
A flow of tap slag: photo anon
Margaret Tebbutt sustains the smelting team: photo D. Meades
Dismantling the furnace: photo anon
General view of the site: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roger Adams charges the bloomery, Dennis Beeney at the bellows: phot J. Hodgkinson
A later bloomery furnace: photo J. Hodgkinson

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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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