Moorebooks
6 years ago
Would anyone like a free copy including postage of Mining Before Powder pages 11 and 30 are missing I have inserted photocopies of these. first to contact me can have it

I have 3 secondhand copies at £3.00 if you were prefer a complete copy
Mike

Chapter details

Mining Before Powder: Papers presented at the Georgius Agricola 500th. Anniversary Conference held at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, Cumbria, on 25-27th. March 1994. Organised jointly by the Peak District Mines Historical Society and the Historical Metallurgy Society. Edited by Trevor D. Ford and Lynn Willies.

Foreword by Conference Organisers -- David Cranstone and Lynn Willies
Firesetting Technology -- Lynn Willies
Drawing Ancient Mines -- Brenda Craddock
Excavating Mines (Copa Hill, Chinflon, Kestel) -- Phil Andrews
Neolithic Mining Landscape at Cissbury, Sussex -- David Field
Hammer Stones from Ecton Copper Mine -- Graeme Guilbert
Notes on Stone Hammers -- Brenda Craddock
Bronze Age Mines of the Great Orme -- Andrew Lewis
Early Mining Leats and Ponds in Wales -- David Bick
Dolaucothi Revisited -- Barry C. Burnham
Hushing Leats at Cwmystwyth -- Stephen Hughes
Silver-Lead: Technological Choice in the Devon Mines -- Peter Claughton
Lead Mining in the Peak in the 13th. Century -- James H. Rieuwerts
Mining Laws of Flintshire and Denbighshire -- Christopher J. Williams
Mining without Laws: Weardale under the Moormasters -- Alan Blackburn
Tin Stamping and Smelting at Upper Merrivale, Devon -- Tom Greeves
15th. Century Mining: the Kuttenberger Kanzionale -- Trevor D. Ford
The First Half-Century of the Rod Engine (c1540-1600) -- Graham Hollister-Short
Tudor Miners of Coleorton, Leicestershire -- Robert F. Hartley
The Dovegang Plot: Legal Preliminaries to Vermuyden's Sough -- Ron Slack
The German Miners at Keswick and the Question of Bismuth -- David Bridge
Coniston Field Visit -- Ian Matheson
Copper Metallurgy at Keswick, 1567-1602 -- Richard Smith
Coalmills in Tyne and Wear: Waterwheels for Mine Drainage -- Eric Clavering
Evidence for Early Mining in Wales -- Simon Timberlake
Early Surface Features of Mining: Towards a Typology -- David Cranstone
The Introduction of Powder -- Graham Hollister-Short
Moorebooks
6 years ago

The free copy has been taken

Mike
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6 years ago
PM inbound....

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Moorebooks
6 years ago
crickleymal
6 years ago
Received today and what a fascinating book it is too. I've just finished the paper on firesetting.
Thanks Mike


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