The Queenstock furnace at Buxted, Sussex: the earliest in England?
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Jan 1, 2022
Abstract
Recent work suggests that Queenstock furnace at Buxted dates from at least as early as 1491. It thus predates the 1496 blast furnace at Newbridge in Hartfield, hitherto accepted as the first to be established in England.
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Meades D M and Houghton R G 1992, ‘Iron Plat, Buxted, Sussex, furnace and forge site survey 1990/1 (TQ/497240)’, WIRG Bulletin 2nd series 12, 23-6.
Combes P and Whittick C 2002, ‘Iron Plat, Queenstock hammerpond and a 15th-century ironworking site at Buxted’, WIRG Bulletin 2nd series 22, 10-18.
Awty B and Whittick C, with the cooperation of Combes P forthcoming, ‘The lordship of Canterbury, ironfounding at Buxted, and the continental antecedents of cannon-founding in the Weald’, Sussex Archaeological Collections 140.
Combes P and Whittick C 2002, ‘Iron Plat, Queenstock hammerpond and a 15th-century ironworking site at Buxted’, WIRG Bulletin 2nd series 22, 10-18.
Awty B and Whittick C, with the cooperation of Combes P forthcoming, ‘The lordship of Canterbury, ironfounding at Buxted, and the continental antecedents of cannon-founding in the Weald’, Sussex Archaeological Collections 140.
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The Queenstock furnace at Buxted, Sussex: the earliest in England?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 37(1), 51-52. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/262
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The Queenstock furnace at Buxted, Sussex: the earliest in England?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 37(1), 51-52. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/262