I have been out of touch with the list for nearly a week owing to a server
problem, so have had to rejoin, and have read the archive on this subject
(as well as the piece in the Daily Telegraph, which was a piece of tabloid
journalism worthy of the Sun or Mail). Why the hype?
If 'the text books' say that a blast furnace (probably two, according to
evidence shortly to be published in Wealden Iron), was operating in the
Weald (Sussex, not Kent) in the 1490s, why was what the monks may have been
doing at Rievaulx 40 years later a revolution?
Jeremy Hodgkinson
Wealden Iron Research Group
www.wealdeniron.org.uk
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