The WEALDEN IRON RESEARCH GROUP is pleased to announce the publication of its ONLINE DATABASE OF IRONWORKING SITES in the Weald of Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire. Access is via links from the Group’s website – www.wealdeniron.org.uk

 

Extensively searchable, the database comprises over 800 sites, of both the direct (bloomery) and indirect (blast furnace and finery forge) processes, dating from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the early 19th century AD. Where available, bibliographic references are given, and these are also searchable.

 

It is intended that the database will continue to be developed, with sites being added as they are discovered, and the bibliography being enhanced to become a source of reference to works about the iron industry but not necessarily related to specific sites.

 

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