1780s Cementation furnace
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1780s Cementation furnace
Image: © Dave Pickersgill Taken: 9 May 2012
In 1999, outside the new Irwin Mitchell Building, archaeologists uncovered the fire hearth and flue of a 1780s cementation furnace. The glass pavement allows a view of the 18th.Century brickwork and rough sandstone beneath.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.385848
Longitude
-1.465773