Might be worth posting this on arch-metals for the iron experts to look
at?
David Poyner
On 24 Jun 2004 at 12:56, David Hardwick wrote:
> I received the following email; from a lady doing a PhD relating to sulphur
> content of Coal in the Bristol Coalfield.
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be helpful so that I can forward them.
>
>
> > From: "Vanda Morton"
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Kingswood Forest coal
> >
> > ...... I am doing a PhD study (Historical Archaeology) centred around
> > Baptist Mills but including related eighteenth-century trade and
> discovery.
> > My specific query is abiout the sulphur content of Kingsdown Forest coals.
> > It has been suggested that Abram Darby moved to Coalbrookdale because the
> > coals there were low-sulphur, implying that those of Kingswood Forest were
> > high in sulphur. Clearly, sulphur levels differed with the seams (e.g.the
> > Stinking Seam at Frenchay) but would any of your members be able to give a
> > general opinion on sulphur-levels of Kingswood Forest coals worked at that
> > time. Coke was made in the area very early on, so presumably sulphur
> levels
> > were not all high. .....
> >
> > Thanks Vanda Morton
> >
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