Small bloomeries have also been in blast at Tom-gill (the beck coming down from the Monk Coniston Tarns, often called Glen Mary), and at Stable Harvey in Blawith.
The conclusion seems to be that many of the little bloomeries are mediaeval; that at Stable Harvey, perhaps the work of Conishead Priory after the grant of 1282, and those in Monk Coniston, the work of Furness Abbey.
There were two bloomeries of the later and larger type at Coniston Forge (up stream from the church) and at Low Nibthwaite, and two others further down the Crake, making sixteen in all the valley now known.
On the east side there is a remarkable coincidence between the sites of Furness Abbey "parks" (or early clearings for sheep farms) and the bloomeries we find there.
In England, as in other countries, charcoal was the only fuel at first used; and after bloomeries had been in vogue for centuries, the blast furnace was introduced from the shores of the Rhine.
Thus it happens, that it may be more advantageous to spread a number of bloomeries over a given district of country, than to unite a blast furnace and an equal number of refineries in a single place.
Bloomeries are frequent in the United States, being found in many parts of the primitive country, where the magnetic ore of iron is abundant.
The first operation to which the pig iron is subjected, consists in melting it in a fire called a finery, similar in form and character to the bloomeries and refineries of which we have spoken, but in which the fuel is coke.
It was reduced in forges and bloomeries as early as the revolution, and during the late war, forges were erected and tons of iron manufactured.
During the war it was wrought in bloomeries and manufactured into spikes, cannon, and shafts for the iron-clads.
In chronological order the Glen Dochartie and Garavaig bloomeries were probably the earliest of the Gairloch ironworks.
The ancient ironworks or bloomeries are the subject of our present chapter.
Let us discuss the questions of the ores used at the ancient bloomeries and at the historic ironworks under separate heads.
The absence of bog iron in the neighbourhoods of the Gairloch iron furnaces or bloomeries is quite intelligible; it was no doubt all consumed by the ironworkers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bloomeries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
