Sectional View on Lines X and Y, South Elevation, Plans at Charging Level and Hearth Level u.s. u.d.
SC 358454
Description Sectional View on Lines X and Y, South Elevation, Plans at Charging Level and Hearth Level u.s. u.d.
Catalogue Number SC 358454
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10648
Scope and Content Plan at hearth level 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. A pair of bellows in the blowing-house continuously blasted air into the furnace. Slag and pig iron were removed from furnace in the casting-house. The pig-iron was hammered into wrought iron in the forge. 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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