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| HER Number: | MDV55711 |
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| Name: | Smelting Site to north of Lower Moorlands Farm, Luppitt |
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Summary
Numerous pieces of slag and a fragment of clay furnace wall found near the bottom of a steep slope are indicative of a probable smelting site. Spoil from a badger sett higher up the hill contained ore nodules.
Location
| Grid Reference: | ST 158 062 |
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| Map Sheet: | ST10NE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Luppitt |
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| District | East Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | LUPPITT |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: ST10NE/18/2
Monument Type(s) and Dates
Full description
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV104115.
Des=worksheet (holder, r. )/(1996)/in pf.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV1142.
Vis=-/-/1996 (holder) probable smelting site. Concentration of numerous pieces of slag and a fragment of clay furnace wall. Site is towards bottom of steep slope. Higher up the slope badger sett spoil contained ore nodules (worksheet).
Crew, P., 1993, Blackdown Hills, Devon. Preliminary Report on the Slags from Sweetlands, Livenhays, Moorlands, Hemyock and Woodbury Great Close (Report - Survey). SDV359508.
Moorlands Farm. The site appears limited to a narrow shelf on a steep slope. It is suggested that this was a site of minor importance, its location due primarily to the local occurrence of ore. There are no indications of a date for iron working here. Badger disturbance makes it unlikely that any significant structural evidence survives. Descriptions of a selection of slag samples from the site given.
Cox, M., 2009, How Important were the Blackdown Hills as a Centre for the Iron Industry before the Industrial Revolution, 26 (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV359500.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV104115 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV1142 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV359500 | Undergraduate Dissertation: Cox, M.. 2009. How Important were the Blackdown Hills as a Centre for the Iron Industry before the Industrial Revolution. University of Exeter Dissertation. Digital. 26. |
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| SDV359508 | Report - Survey: Crew, P.. 1993. Blackdown Hills, Devon. Preliminary Report on the Slags from Sweetlands, Livenhays, Moorlands, Hemyock and Woodbury Great Close. A4 Bound + Digital. |
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Associated Monuments: none recorded
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Apr 8 2016 12:28PM |
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