View of North face of furnace showing tuyere arch after preservation
SC 355164
Description View of North face of furnace showing tuyere arch after preservation
Catalogue Number SC 355164
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 63145
Scope and Content Furnace showing tuyere arch at Bonawe Ironworks, Bonawe, Strathclyde Bonawe Ironworks on the shore of Loch Etive was founded in 1752-3 by Richard Ford and Company as an offshoot of their works at Furness in England. It exploited local wood for smelting iron ore brought via the loch from Lancashire and Cumberland. During smelting, the big square opening or 'tuyere' was bricked up except for a hole for blasts of air from the bellows housed in the now-ruined blowing-house. After smelting, the tuyere was opened and the furnace cleaned. A charcoal-fuelled blast furnace is fed with limestone, charcoal and ore. Continuous blasts of air fuel the burning charcoal. The temperature reaches about 1200 (C. Impurities combined with limestone, or 'slag', floats to the top of the molten iron. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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