It certainly sounds like boring rods but at that time they would hardly be a
new invention. Boring to prove coal had been around for about 200 years by
then.
Martin Roe
Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales
http://www.mroe.freeserve.co.uk
The Industrial Archaeology of Halifax
http://www.mroe.freeserve.co.uk/halifax.htm
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