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Field Visit

Date 1978

Event ID 545822

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/545822

JR Hume Industrial Archaeology Survey

Bonawe (Lorne Furnace). Complete ironworks complex, with furnace ('BUNAW.F.1753' - on lintel), without lining, filling house, ruins of casting house, two charcoal sheds and one shed. Also fine L-shaped row of worker's housing (2 storey). All stone built, slate roofed, houses whitewashed.

Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, 1977. Information from NMRS MS/749/77/1.

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Digital Images

Bonawe Iron Works, Furnace View during excavation; view of casting house taken from top of furnace
Bonawe Iron Works, Furnace View during excavation; view of casting house taken from top of furnaceBonawe Iron Works View by E face of furnace during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace View by E face of furnace during excavation Bonawe Iron Works, Furnace View of wheelpitBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe Iron Works, Furnace General view during excavationBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view along area of casting house to W tuyere archBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view of casting house and W tuyere archBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; detail of W entrance to casting houseBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace View of slag pot by W tuyere archBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view of slag pot by W tuyere archBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace View of slag pot by W tuyere archBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view of casting house area,from NBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view of casting house and W tuyere arch, from WBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view from SW showing excavated areas and furnaceBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view from S showing casting house (foreground) and storeBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view from top of furnace showing casting houseBonawe, Iron Works, Furnace Excavation photograph; view from S showing casting house (foreground) and store

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