Red Smiddy Ironworks View of furnace
SC 560011
Description Red Smiddy Ironworks View of furnace
Date 19/11/1979
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 560011
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Former blast-furnace, Red Smiddy, Poolewe, Ross and Cromarty This furnace was established by Sir George Hay as part of the iron-working empire he developed in Wester Ross under the patronage of James VI. His first blast-furnace was at Letterewe, halfway up Loch Maree, and this was his other one. This view shows the visible remains of the hearth of the furnace. The ferns are growing on one side of the crucible, where the molten iron collected. This was built of the local Torridonian Sandstone, vitrified by the heat of the molten metal. This iron-working venture was designed to use the local scrub woodland to make charcoal, and to produce iron ordnance, well away from interference. As the local population was Gaelic-speaking, spying was difficult. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/224/7
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