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
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> ...... 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. .....
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> Thanks Vanda Morton
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