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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… be effected only with bituminous coal. The strata of ironstone commonly vary from one to five inches in thickness, and frequently the ironstone consists of irregular lumps, called "balls of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… in the village. The walls are of flint-rubble with some ironstone and freestone; the dressings of the 12th-century …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was working four pits at Berry Hill and three (coal and ironstone) at Holly Bush. 26 By 1894 the two undertakings had …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the parish but much has probably been lost as a result of ironstone quarrying in the N.W. Though Boughton itself … stone and probably of Iron Age date, were found during ironstone-working near SP 739668. The area is now reclaimed … visible. Two pits or ditches were found in the face of the ironstone quarry in the same field in 1973. From one of these …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… with cordwood from Ditton Priors and elsewhere, with ironstone from Brown Clee, and with Bouldon limestone. 57 By …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in breadth, affording a passage for carriages. Lead-ore, ironstone, and some coal are found in the neighbourhood. A …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… fretted bargeboards, and other picturesque cottages of ironstone and thatch, were built at the north end of Sandy …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and in a similar position. Iron Age pottery and lumps of ironstone have been found ( Beds. Arch. J., 3 (1966), 3). …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is rich in mineral produce, abounding with coal, ironstone, freestone, and millstone-grit, all of which are … distances from the surface, with a roof of argillaceous ironstone; and the latter about forty yards below the former, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a strong clay, and the higher grounds are peaty. Coal and ironstone are found in abundance, and clay of good quality … and some bobbin-mills. The mines of coal and ironstone are in active operation; there are quarries of …