Photo Archive: Millbrook Saxon bloomery

A report on these excavations can be found in: C. F. Tebbutt, ‘A Middle-Saxon iron smelting site at Millbrook, Ashdown Forest, Sussex’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 120 (1982), 19-35.

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, re-heating hearth 1: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, furnace prior to excavation: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, furnace during excavation: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, Ashdown Forest, 1980: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, furnace with re-heating hearth beyond: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, furnace before excavation: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, re-heating hearth, and furnace before excavation: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, taking archaeomagnetic samples: photo F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, furnace (right) and ore-roasting hearth? before excavation F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, ore-roasting hearth? before excavation F. Tebbutt

Millbrook Saxon bloomery site, 1980, ore-roasting hearth? after excavation F. Tebbutt