The Netherhall Blast Furnace, Maryport
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Jan 1, 2022
Abstract
In response to a condition on a planning application, the site of the Netherhall blast furnace, Maryport (NY 036 362), was subjected to a rapid archaeological investigation by the Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (LUAU) in 1993. A range of archive sources was consulted, many of which received archaeological support and clarification in the subsequent evaluation and excavation, which established the layout of the furnace complex, and has resolved the uncertainty of the arrangement for the water supply. The results have further indicated that the furnace was designed to operate on coke fuel, placing Netherhall at the forefront of 18th century blast furnace technology.
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Tylecote R F, Banks A P, Wattleworth D R and Ashmore B G 1965, ‘Maryport blast furnace; post mortem and reconstruction’, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 203, 867-74.
Ashmore B G 1976, ‘Pig iron ingots from Maryport blast furnace’, Historical Metallurgy 7, (1) 43.
Beckett J V 1981, Coal and Tobacco, Cambridge.
Blick C R 1984, ‘Early blast furnace news’, Historical Metallurgy 18, 44-50.
Cherry J 1982, ‘Post-medieval Britain in 1981’, Post-Medieval Archaeology 16, 226-68.
Crossley D W 1990, Post-Medieval Archaeology in Britain (Leicester).
Dinn J 1988, ‘Dyfi furnace excavations 1982-87’, Post-Medieval Archaeology 22, 111-42.
Fell A 1908, The Early Iron Industry of Furness and District (Ulverston).
Fletcher H A 1881, ‘The archaeology of the West Cumberland iron trade’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 1st Ser 5, 5-21.
Gale D 1988, The Old Maryport Blast Furnace, unpublished report, copy in CRO.
Hair N and Cotton J in press, ‘Excavations at Parton Colliery’, Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc, 100.
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Ince L 1991, The Knight family and the British iron industry, 1692-1902 (Birmingham).
Jars G 1774, Voyages Metallurgiques (Paris).
Lancaster J Y and Wattleworth D R 1977, ‘The Iron and Steel Industry of West Cumbria: An Historical Survey’, Brit Steel Corporation: Teeside 21-3, 23.
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Marshall J D and Davies-Shiel M 1977, Industrial Archaeology of the Lake Counties (Newton Abbot).
Marshall J D, Helme J, Wignall J, and Braithwaite J C 1996, ‘The lineaments of Newland iron furnace, 1747-1903’, Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 66, 195-213.
Nicolson J and Burn R 1777, History of Cumberland (London).
Riden P 1993, A gazetteer of charcoal-fired blast furnaces in Great Britain in use since 1660 (Cardiff).
Schubert H R, 1952, ‘The old blast furnace, Maryport, Cumberland’, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 172, 162.
Slater T R 1973, ‘The old blast furnace at Maryport: its water supply system’, Industrial Archaeology 10, 318-24.
Tylecote R F, Banks A P, Wattleworth D R and Ashmore B G 1965, ‘Maryport blast furnace; post mortem and reconstruction’, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 203, 867-74.
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The Netherhall Blast Furnace, Maryport. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 34(2), 97-109. https://www.hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/290
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The Netherhall Blast Furnace, Maryport. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 34(2), 97-109. https://www.hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/290