In Schubert there is a table (which I missed until now) of waterpower in
British ironworks which gives a possible site of a second century water
powered Roman ironworks and another from the Domesday Book. Kirkstall Forge
had a "fosse or goit" before 1220. He thinks the water power is more likely
to be for the bellows than a hammer. There are references to the source of
the information.
Peter
Peter Hutchison
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