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Sectional View on Lines X and Y, South Elevation, Plans at Charging Level and Hearth Level u.s. u.d.
SC 358451
Description Sectional View on Lines X and Y, South Elevation, Plans at Charging Level and Hearth Level u.s. u.d.
Catalogue Number SC 358451
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10648
Scope and Content Sectional drawing of furnace at Craleckan Ironworks, Furnace, Argyll, Strathclyde Craleckan Ironworks on the shore of Loch Fyne was founded in 1755 by the Duddon Furnace Company from Furness in England. It exploited local wood for smelting iron ore brought via the loch from Lancashire and Cumberland. The furnace produced pig-iron, so called because the molten iron was periodically run off through the tap-hole into trenches in the sand bed in the casting house (on the left). They made a pattern that looked like a sow suckling her piglets. 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', float to the top of the molten iron. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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