s governor of Britain about this time, the history of the trade of smelting. and was very successful in introducing the arts of Anderson observes that " it is more than barely possi- civilisation into England. The discovery of the coins ble ironstone has been dug, and iron made and manufac- of… … art of smelting was practised in Sussex until quite the iron works in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, modern times, when its extinction was due to a failure and other parts where their forges and tools, together in the supply of fuel. In the " Pictorial History of with heaps of the…
