Miskin Project: Bibilography

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References made in this site:

CLEERE, H & CROSSLEY, D. 1995. The Iron Industry of the Weald. 425pp. Merton Press. [ISBN 1 898937 04 4]

CREW, P. 1998. Laxton revisited: a first report on the 1998 excavations. Historical Metallurgy, 32, 49-53. [ISSN 0142-3304]

DAVIES, J.B. 1992. The Hamlet of Broviskin: Mwyndy and Maendy alias The Tile House. Llantrisant and District Local History Society Newsletter, 99. 10pp .

DAVIES, J.B. 1995. The Parks of Clun in Broviskin Hamlet. Llantrisant and District Local History Society Newsletter, 109. 16pp .

DAVIES, J.B. 2001. The Marcher Lordship of Talygarn. Meisgyn and Glynrhondda Local History Research, New Series, vol. 1, no. 4. 16pp .

PARKHOUSE, J. & EVANS, E. 1996. Excavations in Cowbridge, South Glamorgan, 1977-88. British Archaeological Reports, British Series, 245, 252 pp, Tempus Reparatum. [ISBN 0 86054 819 8].

REDKNAP, M. & YOUNG, T.P 1998. The iron industry of south-east Wales in the 13th century. pp. 112-115 In: Nayling, N. The Magor Pill Medieval Wreck , CBA Research Report 115, Council for British Archaeology. [ISSN 0141-7819, ISBN 1 872414 86 9]

STRACHAN, A. & CANTRILL, T.C. 1904. The geology of the South Wales Coalfield. Part VI. The country around Bridgend . Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

THOMAS, G.R. 2000. A chemical and mineralogical investigation of bloomery iron-making in the Bristol Channel Orefield, UK . Unpublished PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.

THOMAS, G.R. & YOUNG, T.P. 1999. Bloomery furnace mass balance and efficiency. In: A.M. Pollard (ed) Geoarchaeology: exploration, environments, resources , Geological Society of London, Special Publication No. 165, 155-164. [ISBN 1-86239-053-3]

YOUNG, T.P. 2000. Geophysical investigation of a bloomery, Lanlai, Miskin (Rhondda Cynon Tāf), April 2000. Geoarch Report 00/05. 12pp, 9 figs.

YOUNG, T.P. & MACDONALD, P. 1998. Miskin, School Road. Archaeology in Wales, 37 (for 1997), 79. [ISSN 0306-7629]

YOUNG, T.P. & THOMAS, G.R. 1998. The cargo: iron ore analysis. pp. 105-111 In: Nayling, N. The Magor Pill Medieval Wreck , CBA Research Report 115, Council for British Archaeology. [ISSN 0141-7819, ISBN 1 872414 86 9]

YOUNG, T.P. & THOMAS G.R 1999. Provenancing iron ore from the Bristol Channel Orefield: the cargo of the Magor Pill Boat. In: A.M. Pollard (ed) Geoarchaeology: exploration, environments, resources , Geological Society of London, Special Publication No. 165, 103-121. [ISBN 1-86239-053-3]

Suggested reading on bloomery iron-making:

HENDERSON, J. 2000. The science and archaeology of materials. An investigation of inorganic materials . Routledge. [ISBN 0-415-19933-6 and ISBN 0-415-19933-4]. see particularly p. 224-234 and 270-282.

TYLECOTE, R.F. 1986. The prehistory of metallurgy in the British Isles . The Institute of Metals. [ISBN 0-901462-96-9]. see particularly p. 124-201.

Additional extended bibliography on the geology of the S Wales iron ores:

ATKINSON, M. & BOYNS, T. 1980. Haematite Mining in Glamorgan in the Nineteenth Century. Glamorgan Historian, 12 , 109-122.

BOWLER, O.M.L. & KINGSTON, G.A. 1971. Mineralisation in the Triassic rocks of the Llantrisant area, Glamorgan. Mineral Exploitation and Economic Geology, 30-34.

GAYER, R.A. & CRIDDLE, A.J. 1970. Mineralogy and genesis of the Llanharry iron ore deposits, Glamorgan. Ninth Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 1969, Mining and Petroleum Geology Section, Paper 15, 605-626.

HOWARD, F.T. The haematite deposits of South Wales, and the theories regarding their formation. Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 26 , 47-54.

RANKIN, A.H. & CRIDDLE, A.J. 1985. Mineralizing fluids and metastable low-temperature inclusion brines at Llanharry iron deposit, South Wales. Transactions of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Section B, Applied Earth Science), 94 , 126-132.

SIBLY, T.F. 1919. Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain. Vol. X - Iron ores (contd.) - The haematites of the Forest of Dean and South Wales . Memoirs of the Geological Survey.

SIBLY, T.F. & LLOYD, W. 1927. Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain. Vol. X - Iron ores (contd.) - The haematites of the Forest of Dean and South Wales. 2nd Edition . Memoirs of the Geological Survey.

SIMMS, M.J. 1990. Triassic Paleokarst in Britain, Cave Science, 17 , 93-101.

VIVIAN, S. 1885. The haematite deposits of the southern outcrop of the Carboniferous Limestone of South Wales. Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineer, 14 , 164 [discussion p 211]

VIVIAN, W. 1872. The Mwyndy Mines. Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 3 , 79.

VIVIAN, W. 1876. Note on paragenetic formation of carbonate of lime and oxide of iron, at the Mwyndy Mines, Glamorganshire. With note on the specimens by J.H. Collins. Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 4 , 70.

VIVIAN, W. 1877. Further notes on the oxides of iron, enclosed in quartz, at Mwyndy, Glamorganshire. Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, 4 , 117

WATSON, J.J.W. 1859. The haematite deposits of Glamorganshire. Geologist, 2, 241-256.

WETHERED, E. 1882. On the origin of the haematite deposits in the Carboniferous Limestone. Geological Magazine , 522

WILLIAMS, M. 1958. Geology and mineralisation of the Llanharry hematite deposits, South Wales, unpublished PhD thesis, University of London.

WILSON, D., DAVIES, J.R., FLETCHER, C.J.N. & SMITH, M. 1990. The geology of the South Wales Coalfield. Part VI. The country around Bridgend. Memoir for 1:50,000 sheet 261 and 262 (England and Wales). (Second edition). British Geological Survey.