| P number: | P209947 |
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| Old photograph number: | A10040 |
| Caption: | Bell pits, Budd's Copse, Faygate Station, Sussex. |
| Description: | Looking east at Budd's Copse, 750 yards west 10 degrees north of Faygate Station. The wood is on the dip-slope of the Horsham Stone. Old shafts, probably sunk in the 17th century to a seam of clay-ironstone about 10 to 20 ft. below the surface, are shown by slight depressions of the ground surface. The depressions hold shallow pools of water in the winter months, but dry out in the summer, leaving circular patches of blackened dead leaves and twigs, as seen in this photo. Iron smelting began on the Hasting Beds outcrop in pre-Roman times and during the 16th and 17th centuries, when at its peak, it was a major industry. The products of the furnaces were cast iron, some of which was made directly into cannon, for which the Weald was renowned or into fire-back, pots and pans, while some was cast into pig iron. The furnaces utilized locally dug clay-ironstone and were fired by charcoal from the managed woodlands on the Hastings Beds and Weald Clay. |
| Date taken: | Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1963 |
| Photographer: | Pulsford, J.M. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 521500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 134500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 467.28 KB; 1000 x 776 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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