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Photo Archive: Sharpthorne brickworks, West Hoathly, ore pits

A report on the iron ore pits at Sharpthorne is in Wealden Iron, 2nd series, 7 (1987), 3-15.

Layers of ore at Sharpthorne
Quarry face with beds of iron ore nodules: photo F. Tebbutt
Section of quarry face showing a filled-in minepit: photo F. Tebbutt
Section of quarry face showing a filled-in minepit: photo J. Hodgkinson
Clay ironstone nodule: photo J. Hodgkinson
Bed of clay ironstone nodules: photo J. Hodgkinson
General view of quarry face showing sections of minepits: photo J. Hodgkinson
Roger Adams with some large siderite nodules: photo anon

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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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