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Cansiron Forge Iron Smelter (United Kingdom)


Tilt hammer shaft and wooden anvil base found here are in the Anne of Cleaves Museum in Lewes. Forge bottoms and cinder in evidence, and much glassy slag. Combined forge and furnace site, although no documentary evidence of a furnace. Known period: 1574-1700. For details see [url]http://www.wirgdata.org/searchsites.cgi[/url]

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Last updated March 7th 2009 by Peter Burgess

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Latitude: 51.1256
Longitude: 0.0749626
Landranger grid reference: TQ453383
Easting: 545300
Northing: 138300

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Cansiron Forge Iron Smelter belongs to the East Sussex region.