PeteM:

As usual, excellent and informative posts. The pics are very similar to what I have seen near ore mines in reading other texts, that is until coke was discovered, or it's use in making steel as noted by the pioneer Dud Dudley in 1618 in "Metallum Martis". He had trouble from the get-go and about 50 years later Abraham Darby resurrected it. Before then, many of the furnaces were in the entrance or very near the mine. So, if one retraces the history of the mine, the direction of the transfer of technogoly may be discovered. Also, you can really see the impacts or effects of machines based on hydraulics which also worked the hammers.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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