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Reconstruction showing Working Principles and Section as existing, looking East Insc. "GDH"
SC 358457
Description Reconstruction showing Working Principles and Section as existing, looking East Insc. "GDH"
Catalogue Number SC 358457
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10647
Scope and Content Section of blast furnace 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. A small room (28) is built over the gap (27) separating the furnace from the earth bank. Raw material was carried through the charging-house, up the steps (24) and tipped into the furnace shaft. 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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