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A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)

London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 30

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n, as cast iron. Although theores of iron are found in immense deposits in theUnited Kingdom, yet it is not so much this circumstance as the near co-existence of coal well adaptedfor smelting, and generally also of limestone for a flux, that gives our country a paramount advantageover, perhaps, all… … The manufacture of iron in this country has been practised from a very early period.According to Scriveners History of the Iron Trade, immense beds of cinders from Roman forges B Antiquities and PForks of Art, exist in the Forest of Dean. In 1762, he says, a coin of Antoninus Pius, and a piece of…

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