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ID:SDV359500
Title:How Important were the Blackdown Hills as a Centre for the Iron Industry before the Industrial Revolution
Originator:Cox, M.
Date:2009
Summary:Research shows that the extraction, processing and manufacture of iron on the Blackdown Hills has been a major industrial activity in the area since the Iron Age. Only the sites specifically mentioned in the text have been accessioned. Note that some are in Somerset.

Associated Monuments (16)

MDV114775Iron Slag at Tedburrow Farm (Find Spot)
MDV56244Iron Slag at Woodhayne Farm, Higher Wood, Yarcombe (Monument)
MDV114778Iron Working Site at Abbotsford Farm (Monument)
MDV114773Iron Working Site at Churchills Farm, Hemyock (Monument)
MDV11548Iron Works at Tedburrow Farm, Hemyock (Monument)
MDV61502Iron Works at Town Farm Quarry, Burlescombe (Monument)
MDV68838Iron Works to east of Tedburrow Farm, Hemyock (Monument)
MDV47423Iron Works to north-east of Sweetlands Farm, Upottery (Monument)
MDV110229Open cast ironstone mines, from Black Down and North Hill, eastwards to Hill View Farm (Monument)
MDV57200Pits on North Hill, Broadhembury (Monument)
MDV114774Pottery Works at Churchills Farm, Hemyock (Monument)
MDV53351Slag from Bywood Farm, Dunkeswell (Monument)
MDV70541Slag from Field to west of Tedburrow Farm, Hemyock (Monument)
MDV75089Slag Mound 330 metres north-north-west of Bywood Farm, Dunkeswell (Find Spot)
MDV67545Slag Mound south east of Bywood Farm, Dunkeswell (Monument)
MDV55711Smelting Site to north of Lower Moorlands Farm, Luppitt (Monument)