 | 1851 - 696 pages
...for which it was admirably adapted. During the operation of bringing this common into cultivation, the method adopted by the Romans of producing the...mouths of the channels opened towards the west, from writing, which is the reason we have no text to his plates of the Antiquities of Diirobrivce ; and... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 594 pages
...used by blacksmiths, were ploughed up. During the operation of bringing this common into cultivation, the method adopted by the Romans of producing the...when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and effect upon the smelting furnaces at the extremity of the tunnels. METALLIC IMPLEMENTS. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1858 - 778 pages
...blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of the hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered...when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and effect upon the smelting furnaces at the extremity of the tunnels."* It will be observed... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1859 - 280 pages
...blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of the hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered...when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and effect upon the smelting furnaces at the extremity of the tunnels."* It will be observed... | |
 | Anonymous - 1866 - 588 pages
...those at present used by blacksmiths. During the operation of bringing this common into cultivation, the method adopted by the Romans of producing the...in this valley, and sometimes with great violence ; and the blast received by them would, when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and... | |
 | 1866 - 586 pages
...smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill ; tfcey vrere wide at one extremity, but tapered off to a narrow...the west, from which quarter a prevalent wind blows is this valley, and sometimes with great violence ; and the blast received by them would, when the... | |
 | George Fleming - 1869 - 744 pages
...neighbourhood of Epiacum (Lanchester). A part of the valley, rendered barren by the heaps of slightly-covered cinders, had never been cultivated till very recent...when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and effect upon the smelting furnaces at the extremity of the tunnels.' This primitive mode of... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1873 - 540 pages
...legions on the Wall were fabricated and repaired. Dr. Bruce, describing the spot, says, " The method of producing the blast necessary to smelt the metal...when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and effect upon the smelting furnaces at the extremity of the tunnels." Now without venturing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1884 - 370 pages
...operation of bringing a common into cultivation, GREAT INDUSTRIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. " had been found in the side of a hill ; they were wide at one extremity,...in this valley, and sometimes with great violence ; and the blast received by them would, when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force and... | |
 | James Moore Swank - 1884 - 452 pages
...extensive Roman iron works " in the neighborhood of Epiacum, (Lanchester,) in England. Mr. Bruce says : " Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill...met in a point. The mouths of the channels opened toward the west, from which quarter a prevalent wind blows in this valley, and sometimes with great... | |
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the method adopted by the Romans of producing the blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered off to a narrow bore at the other, where they met... 
