Possible Furnace Core
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Possible Furnace Core
Image: © Mike White Taken: 24 Jul 2008
This block of impure iron more than a metre in each direction and was probably too heavy to be removed from the site. It's the sort of thing that remains if a furnace is put out without allowing the iron to melt and be drawn off. A furnace grown cold in this way has to be broken up because the core can't be removed. I've called it a stone, but it's mostly iron, because a magnet sticks to it. It's a tangible relic of Priorslee Furnaces.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.685154
Longitude
-2.442713