View showing lintel above tap arch
SC 646043
Description View showing lintel above tap arch
Date 1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 646043
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lorn Furnace, Bonawe Iron Works, Argyll & Bute This iron-smelting works was founded in 1752 by the partners in the Newland Furnace Co, near Ulverston, Lancashire, acting here as the Lorn Furnace Co. It was built to use charcoal made from local woodland as a fuel, ore being brought in ships from Lancashire, which returned with iron. This shows one of the three cast iron lintels supporting the upper part of the furnace above the blowing arch. This arch spanned a nozzle through which air was blown into the furnace, making the charcoal burn fiercely enough to raise the temperature in the furnace above the melting point of iron. The works operated until the early 1870s, and was then abandoned. The ore and charcoal sheds were then used for agricultural purposes. The works was repaired by the Ministry of Public Buildings & Works from 1967, and is now in the care of Historic Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/11/0
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