Identifier: sussexarchaeolog02suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ured friend, Walter Burrell, of Cuckfield, Esq., deceased.The particulars of the modus operandi of the manufacture,furnished from so authentic a source, are of sufficient value towarrant their introduction in this place. THE MANNER OF THE IRON WORK AT THE FURNACE. The iron-mine lies sometimes deeper, sometimes shallower,in the earth, from four to forty (feet) and upward. There are several sorts of mine, some hard, some gentle,some rich, some coarser. The iron-masters always mix dif-ferent sorts of mine together, otherwise they will not melt toadvantage. When the mine is brought in, they take small-coal (char-coal) and lay a row of it, and upon that a row of mine, andso alternately S.S.S., one above another, and, setting the coalson fire, therewith burn the mine. The use of this burning is to mollify it, that so it maybe broke in small pieces; otherwise, if it should be put intothe furnace, as it comes out of the earth, it would not melt,but come away whole. * Dallaways Western Sussex.
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tCnst-irmi jfiinnutiiratal llab, Waitljrat €§m§. IRON WORKS OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX. 201 Care also must be taken that it be not too much burned,for then it will loop, i. e. melt and run together in a mass.After it is burnt, they beat it into small pieces with an ironsledge, and then put it into the furnace (which is before chargedwith coals), casting it upon the top of the coals, where it meltsand falls into the hearth, in the space of about twelve hours,more or less, and then it runs into a sow. The hearth, or bottom of the furnace, is made of a sand-stone, and the sides rounds to the height of a yard, or there-about ; the rest of the furnace is lined up to the top withbrick. When they begin upon a new furnace, they put fire for aday or two before they begin to blow. Then they blow gently, and encrease by degrees till theycome to the height, in ten weeks or more. Every six days they call a founday, in which space theymake eight tun of iron, if you divide the whole sum of ironmade

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