South Yorkshire HLC

HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT RECORD

Summary of sources

South Yorkshire includes the four boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. Minerals represented in the record include coal, ganister, gritstone, iron, lead, magnesium limestone, raddle, sand.

Contacts South Yorkshire Historic Environment Characterisation http://www.sytimescapes.org.uk/home South Yorkshire Industrial History Society http://www.topforge.co.uk/SYIHS.htm Northern Mines Research Society http://www.nmrs.org.uk/page2.html Peak District Mines Historical Society http://www.pdmhs.com/Publications.asp Yorkshire Archaeological Society Journal http://www.yas.org.uk/content/yaj.html Yorkshire Archaeological Society Industrial History Section http://www.industrialhistory.yas.org.uk/content/findout.html

Abbreviations AIA – Association for Industrial Archaeology

ASPDNP – Archaeology Service Peak District National Park

SYAFRU – South Yorkshire Archaeology Field and Research Unit SYIHS – South Yorkshire Industrial History Society. NAA – Northern Archaeological Associates

COAL Anon 1995 Results of a First and Second Stage Archaeological Evaluation: Orgreave Hall and Curtilage SYAFRU for RJB Mining. (unpub report)

Anon 1997 1997 Manor Castle Colliery Coke Ovens. SYIHS (unpub document)

Bevan, B 2006 From Cairns to Craters: Conservation Heritage Assessment of Burbage. Moor for the Future. (unpub report) [Deep Sick Coal Pits, Ringinglow]

Glister, R 1996 ‘The Conception and Construction of the Barnsley Canal’ in B Elliott (ed) Aspects of Barnsley 4, 215-114. Barnsley: Wharncliffe

Glister, R 1998 ‘Development and Decline of the Barnsley Canal’ in: B Elliott (ed) Aspects of Barnsley 5, 41-55 Gray, G D B 1976 ‘The South Yorkshire Coalfield’ in J Benson & R G Neville (eds) Studies in the Yorkshire Coal Industry. 31- 44. Manchester University Press Barnsley: Wharncliffe

Mathews, J and Crocker, A 1987 ‘Barber Fields Coal Drift Workings, Ringinglow, Sheffield’ Bull PDMHS 10.1, 79-80 Mathews, J and Price, D 1961 ‘The Old Coal Mines and Works of Ringinglow, Sheffield’ Bull PDMHS 1.5

Medlicott, I R 1987 ‘The Development of Coal Mining on the Norfolk and Rockingham-Fitzwilliam Estates in South Yorkshire’ Yorkshire Arch J 59, 103-118 Myers, A 1995 Spring Wood and the White Coal Industry: Rapid Archaeological Survey and Report (unpub report)

RCHME 1993 Houghton Main Colliery, Little Houghton. (unpub report) Taylor, W 2001 South Yorkshire Pits. Barnsley: Wharncliffe Books.

GENERAL Anon 2001 Fuelling the Revolution (Sheffield Archaeological Surveys Level 2 and 3 Survey Woodlands) II, 7-16 NAA (unpub document)

Bayliss, D (ed) 1995 A Guide to the Industrial History of South Yorkshire. AIA

Cross, D 2009 ‘Yorkshire Estates and Mineral Exploitation, 1750-1830’ Yorkshire Arch J 81 [relevance uncertain] Crossley, D & Kiernan, D 1992 ‘Lead Smelting Mills of Derbyshire’ Derbyshire Arch J 112, 6-47 [Lead Smelting Site, Beauchief]

Coutts, C M 1996 Sheffield's Heritage Woodlands. An Archaeological and Archival Study. (unpub document) Magilton, J R 1977 The Doncaster District: An Archaeological Survey. Pierson, W 1971 South Yorkshire Historian. 1 [more information required]

Scurfield, G 1986 ‘Seventeenth Century Sheffield and its Environs’ Yorkshire Arch J 58, 147-71

QUARRIES, GRITSTONE, RADDLE, GANISTER Anon 1999 1999 Hoyles Farm, Bradfield: Archaeological Survey. ASPDNP (report) [site nos 7, 11, 12, 17 gritstone]

Brown, I J and Cowdell, F W 1967 ‘The Mining of Raddle in the Rotherham Area’ Bull PDMHS 3.3, 133-42 Brown, I J 1970 ‘Supplementary Notes on The Working of Raddle at Micklebring, Rotherham Area’ Bull PDMHS 4.3, 249- 51 Brown, I J 1970 ‘Notes on the Sand Workings Doncaster Area’ Bull PDMHS 4.3, 244-8 Garland, E. & Young, B 1973 From Dore to Dore. [ganister; more info needed] Goodchild, J 1996 ‘The Ruddle Mines at Micklebring and the Ruddle Mill at Braithwell’ in M Jones (ed) Aspects of Rotherham 2, 228-33 Barnsley: Wharncliffe Latham, I D 1993 Results of an archaeological survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry, Warmsworth. (unpub report) [magnesium limestone] The National Trust Archaeological Survey 1986: The Derwent Estate. Site no. 60512 [sandstone quarry]

Pearson, T 2000 Quern Manufacturing at Wharncliffe Rocks, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. EH Research Report AI/20/2000 Speed, G 1996 Skelbrooke Quarry, South Yorkshire - Archaeological Evaluation. [unpub]

IRON Jones, M 1995 ‘Ironstone Mining at Tankersley in the Nineteenth Century for Elsecar and Milton Ironworks’ in B Elliott (ed) Aspects of Barnsley 3, 80-115 Barnsley: Wharncliffe Latham, I D 1992 Results of an Archaeological Survey at Cawthorne Woods. [includes iron] Umpleby, T 2000 Water Mills and Furnaces on the Yorkshire Dearne and its Tributaries. [chap 4 and 5 iron]

Wardell Armstrong 1995 Hillside West, Thorncliffe Lane, Chapeltown, Sheffield: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment. (unpub document) [ironstone 4-5, 6-7]