Tin smelting at Week Ford, Dartmoor; a brief note

Abstract

The initial report on Bryan Earl's investigation of the two Week Ford blowing houses at SX 662724 and associated material at the site shows that smelting operations were weil established by 700 AD. Stereo colour air photographs and surface investigation show a long-term series of developments from the 'hut circle' noted on Ordnance Survey maps, through tin dressing, then dressing and smelting which were abandoned by about the eighteenth century, to the present day remains.