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Photo Archive: Hodges Wood bloomeries, Crowborough, excavation

A report on this site can be seen in Wealden Iron, 1st series, 15 (1979), p. 3.

Furnace 2 during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Furnace 2 before excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Furnace 1 during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Furnace 1 during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Furnace 2 after excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
Furnace 1 during excavation: photo J. Hodgkinson
General view of excavation of Furnace 2: 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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