Furnaces: miscellaneous notes and correspondence
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GOW/04/04/01
Title
Furnaces: miscellaneous notes and correspondence
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1 folder
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1. 1896, 17 August. Notes, with sketches, on an old coke oven on the summit of Fountains Fell, Yorkshire. 1 sheet.
2. 1900, 2 August. Letter from W St John Hope to Gowland: during recent excavations at Hayles [Hailes] Abbey, a basin-shaped depression was found in the floor of the church, in front of the high altar; Hope wonders if it would have been a de-silvering furnace from the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
3. 1902, 15 February. 1 leaf cut from the Engineering and Mining journal: article by CW Pritchett, 'Ancient copper smelting in Mexico'.
4. 1908. MS transcript of a note on the discovery of copper cakes in South Caernarvonshire, from Archaeologia Cambrensis 1908, p 118.
5. 1913, 20 September. Letter from John Ward, Welsh Museum, Cardiff, to Gowland: recent discoveries at Gellygaer [Gelligaer], just outside the Roman fort, include a furnace, which came to light during the digging of a grave in the churchyard; the sides of the lateral flues were patched or lined with a 'brilliant greenish blobby glaze', which appeared to be accidental, not the result of pottery firing; Ward knows of no other instances in a Roman kiln, and asks if Gowland can suggest and explanation, or would be willing to analyse a sample; asks for Gowland's comments on 'a parcel of slaggy stuff and particulars of a hearth' sent to him a year or so ago; refers to the Museum's recent receipt of a remarkable hoard of late Bronze Age implements found at the bottom of a tarn [Llyn Fawr]. 2 sheets.
6. Notes taken by Gowland from various publications, including the Archaeological Journal XXX (1873). 3 sheets.
7. Notes, not in Gowland's hand, but headed by him in pencil 'Cupellation'. 1 sheet.
8. Notes, not in Gowland's hand, apparently taken in connection with Gowland's article 'Silver in Roman and Earlier times', Archaeologia 69 (1918), but not a final draft. 13 sheets, some numbered in pencil between 71 and 94.
2. 1900, 2 August. Letter from W St John Hope to Gowland: during recent excavations at Hayles [Hailes] Abbey, a basin-shaped depression was found in the floor of the church, in front of the high altar; Hope wonders if it would have been a de-silvering furnace from the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
3. 1902, 15 February. 1 leaf cut from the Engineering and Mining journal: article by CW Pritchett, 'Ancient copper smelting in Mexico'.
4. 1908. MS transcript of a note on the discovery of copper cakes in South Caernarvonshire, from Archaeologia Cambrensis 1908, p 118.
5. 1913, 20 September. Letter from John Ward, Welsh Museum, Cardiff, to Gowland: recent discoveries at Gellygaer [Gelligaer], just outside the Roman fort, include a furnace, which came to light during the digging of a grave in the churchyard; the sides of the lateral flues were patched or lined with a 'brilliant greenish blobby glaze', which appeared to be accidental, not the result of pottery firing; Ward knows of no other instances in a Roman kiln, and asks if Gowland can suggest and explanation, or would be willing to analyse a sample; asks for Gowland's comments on 'a parcel of slaggy stuff and particulars of a hearth' sent to him a year or so ago; refers to the Museum's recent receipt of a remarkable hoard of late Bronze Age implements found at the bottom of a tarn [Llyn Fawr]. 2 sheets.
6. Notes taken by Gowland from various publications, including the Archaeological Journal XXX (1873). 3 sheets.
7. Notes, not in Gowland's hand, but headed by him in pencil 'Cupellation'. 1 sheet.
8. Notes, not in Gowland's hand, apparently taken in connection with Gowland's article 'Silver in Roman and Earlier times', Archaeologia 69 (1918), but not a final draft. 13 sheets, some numbered in pencil between 71 and 94.