Further work on residues from lead/silver smelting at Combe Martin, North Devon
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.main##
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.sidebar##
Published
Nov 10, 2021
Abstract
This paper outlines the history of lead-silver mining, smelting and refining at Combe Martin, in north Devon, during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the background to the discovery of large amounts of smelting residues from that period in the centre of the village. The results of the analyses carried out on those residues are presented along with an interpretation of the processes which produced them.
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.details##
Keywords
References
Claughton P 2004, The Combe Martin mines, 2nd edn (Combe Martin).
Claughton P 1992, ‘Mediaeval silver-lead smelting in Devon’, in L Willies and D Cranstone (eds), Boles and smeltmills (Matlock Bath), 12–14.
Claughton P 2003, Silver mining in England and Wales, 1066–1500. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Exeter.
Crossley D 1990, Post-medieval archaeology in Britain (Leicester).
Crossley D and Kiernan D 1992, ‘The lead-smelting mills of Derbyshire’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 112, 6–47.
Deer W A, Howie R A and Zussman J 1992, An introduction to the rock forming minerals (Harlow).
Dunkerley T 2002, Archaeological evidence as to the smelting of silver-lead ores during the 16th and 17th century in Combe Martin, North Devon (unpublished report).
Gill M C 1992, ‘Analysis of lead slags’, in L Willies and D Cranstone (eds), Boles and smeltmills (Matlock Bath), 51–53.
Gough J W 1967, The mines of Mendip (Newton Abbot).
Kiernan D 1989, The Derbyshire lead industry in the sixteenth century (Chesterfield).
Oliver G (ed) 1854, A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX with a pedigree of most of its gentry by Thomas Westcote, Gent. (Exeter).
Paynter S, Dunkerley T and Claughton P 2003, Lead smelting waste from the 2001–2002 excavations at Combe Martin, Devon (Portsmouth: Centre for Archaeology Report 79/2003).
Percy J 1870a, Metallurgy, Volume III - Part 2, Lead (London).
Percy J 1870b, Metallurgy, Volume III - Part 1, Lead desilverization (London).
Rehren T, Schneider J and Bartels C 1999, ‘Medieval lead-silver smelting in the Siegerland, West Germany’, Historical Metallurgy 33(2), 73–84.
Scrivener R C and Bennett M J 1980, ‘Ore genesis and controls of mineralisation in the Upper Palaeozoic rocks of North Devon’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, Annual Conference of the Ussher Society, January 1980, 54–58.
Tylecote R F 1990, The prehistory of metallurgy in the British Isles (London).
Wrigley E A 2010, Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge).
Claughton P 1992, ‘Mediaeval silver-lead smelting in Devon’, in L Willies and D Cranstone (eds), Boles and smeltmills (Matlock Bath), 12–14.
Claughton P 2003, Silver mining in England and Wales, 1066–1500. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Exeter.
Crossley D 1990, Post-medieval archaeology in Britain (Leicester).
Crossley D and Kiernan D 1992, ‘The lead-smelting mills of Derbyshire’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 112, 6–47.
Deer W A, Howie R A and Zussman J 1992, An introduction to the rock forming minerals (Harlow).
Dunkerley T 2002, Archaeological evidence as to the smelting of silver-lead ores during the 16th and 17th century in Combe Martin, North Devon (unpublished report).
Gill M C 1992, ‘Analysis of lead slags’, in L Willies and D Cranstone (eds), Boles and smeltmills (Matlock Bath), 51–53.
Gough J W 1967, The mines of Mendip (Newton Abbot).
Kiernan D 1989, The Derbyshire lead industry in the sixteenth century (Chesterfield).
Oliver G (ed) 1854, A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX with a pedigree of most of its gentry by Thomas Westcote, Gent. (Exeter).
Paynter S, Dunkerley T and Claughton P 2003, Lead smelting waste from the 2001–2002 excavations at Combe Martin, Devon (Portsmouth: Centre for Archaeology Report 79/2003).
Percy J 1870a, Metallurgy, Volume III - Part 2, Lead (London).
Percy J 1870b, Metallurgy, Volume III - Part 1, Lead desilverization (London).
Rehren T, Schneider J and Bartels C 1999, ‘Medieval lead-silver smelting in the Siegerland, West Germany’, Historical Metallurgy 33(2), 73–84.
Scrivener R C and Bennett M J 1980, ‘Ore genesis and controls of mineralisation in the Upper Palaeozoic rocks of North Devon’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, Annual Conference of the Ussher Society, January 1980, 54–58.
Tylecote R F 1990, The prehistory of metallurgy in the British Isles (London).
Wrigley E A 2010, Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge).
How to Cite
Further work on residues from lead/silver smelting at Combe Martin, North Devon. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 44(2), 104-111. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/151
Section
Articles
How to Cite
Further work on residues from lead/silver smelting at Combe Martin, North Devon. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 44(2), 104-111. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/151