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Site Name:
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Tollslye Furnace |
OS Reference:
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TQ 6322 3712
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Parish:
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Lamberhurst |
Former Parish:
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Hundred:
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Wachlingstone |
District:
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Tunbridge Wells |
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County:
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Kent |
River Basin:
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Medway |
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Site Type:
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Furnace |
Period:
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Modern |
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Century:
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17 |
Geology:
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Tunbridge Wells Sand, Wadhurst Clay |
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Geology notes:
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Earliest known date:
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1603 |
Latest known date:
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1634 |
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Dating evidence:
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John Porter of Lamberhurst had in 1603 paid Anthony, Viscount Montague, £320 for a lease of Bayham Forge and Tollesley Forge [sic] and all their buildings and equipment from 1605 for twenty-one years (TNA, E 112/127/249). The name 'Furnace Wood' appears to have replaced 'Kingswood', the latter appearing on a Bayham estate map of 1640, copying an original of 1599 (Eales 1947:134). In 1634 Alexander Thomas was to deliver 10 tons of sows at 'Tedye' furnace (ESRO DYK 1086). There are no references in the 1653 or 1664 lists.
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Site Description:
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Bay: L c.120m H not recorded/c.3m Breached by stream at SW end.
Water system: Pond dry. Tail-race may be indicated by line of ponds leading from NE end of bay to join stream.
Working area: Probably at NE end where is concentration of glassy slag and charcoal.
Part of the site lies in Frant (East Sussex)
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Scheduled Monument Number:
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HER Reference:
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MES34694 (ANA) [TQ 63 NW 5] |
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Bay Height (m.):
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3 |
Bay Length (m.):
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120 |
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Classis Britannica tiles:
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No |
Samian pottery:
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No |
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Cylindrical slag plugs:
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No |
Two-finery forge:
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No |
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Excavation?:
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No |
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Excavation Details:
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Description of site vegetation:
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Slag Heap Area (m. sq) :
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Slag heap grade (Hodgkinson 1999):
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Persons Involved in Discovery:
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References:
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Straker, E. (1931) Wealden Iron. Bell. London
(for this site see page(s) 268)
Cleere, H. F. and Crossley, D. W.. (1995) The iron industry of the Weald. Merton Priory Press. Cardiff
(for this site see page(s) 361)
Jack, S. M.. (1981) Sources for the History of the Iron Industry in the PRO, Pt 2. Wealden Iron, Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group. Second series, 1. pp. 7-11
(for this site see page(s) 9-10)
Eeles, H. S.. (1947) Frant - A Parish History. Courier. Tunbridge Wells
(for this site see page(s) 134)
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Persons with known connections to this site:
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Barnham, Elizabeth - (Nominal) owner 1620-bef 1640
Barnham, Martin - Owner 1608-20
Barnham, Stephen - Owner in 1608
Browne, Anthony-Maria - Owner bef 1603-aft 1605
Dobell, Walter - (De facto) owner 1620-bef 1640
Hendley, William - ?Lessee/ironmaster in 1634
Porter, John - Lessee/ironmaster 1605-26?
Thomas, Alexander - Supplier of sows in 1634
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