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Newsletter Index 1-40 SECTION 1 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS NEWSLETTER 1 The Beckamoor Combe Stream survey, Sandy Introduction to the DTRG, Tom Greeves Gerrard Who’s who and why?, Phil Newman Upper Merrivale Mill and the Civil War, Mike Upper Merrivale Tin Mill and its context, Tom Dickinson Greeves Book Review: The Industrial Revolution in Earthwork survey at Upper Merrivale Tin Metals, Joan Day and R.F. Tylecote (eds), Blowing Mill, Sandy Gerrard The Institute of Metals Sixty-two years of progress [Upper Merrivale] Outcombe Tin Mill in Sheepstor Parish: a Money matters survey of the field remains, Peter and Paul Crossed wires Castle, Malcolm, Gill and Nicholas Giles Book Reviews: Metallurgical Sites in Britain: John Robins - a tribute Priorities for Research and Preservation. Available from the Institute of Metals NEWSLETTER 4 Early Mining in the British Isles. Proceedings New mortarstone exposed at mill [right bank, of the Early Mining Workshop at Plas Tan Lower Hartor Tor, River Plym] Y Bwlch Mortarstone at Keaglesborough Conferences Tin streamworks - a salutary tale [Cornwall] Bigbury Bay ingots NEWSLETTER 2 RCHME survey of tinworks Honorary members Summary report on the second season of Ingots found off South Devon Coast [Bigbury excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing Bay] and Stamping Mill 1992, Sandy Gerrard Devon Record Office and Tom Greeves Cuttings [articles featuring the DTRG] Book Reviews: The Dartmoor Bibliography, Summary report on the excavation of Upper Peter Hamilton-Leggett, Devon Books in Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill association with DNP (SX55197664), Sandy Gerrard and Tom Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, Helen Greeves Harris, Peninsula Press Documentary research on the Walkham Valley Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley after Crockerntor 1994 1913, P.H.G. Richardson, NMRS Crockerntor, Mike Brown Tudor and Stuart Devon - The Common Estate Book Reviews: Early Metallurgical Sites in and Government, Grey, T. et al [eds], Great Britain BC2000 to AD 1500. University of Exeter Press Available from the Institute of Metals Other Publications [involving the DTRG and Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol.1 The East, tinworking] Vol.2 The North, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books NEWSLETTER 5 Extract from ‘Prospectus of Mr Webb’s Plan NEWSLETTER 3 for Exploring Mines; together with the DTRG AGM Original and Present Prices of Mines 1807’ Walkham Valley research DTRG AGM 20 March 1993 Crockerntor 1994 High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown New galleries at museum [of Dartmoor Life] Visit to Southill Leat and Mill, 19 June 1993, DTRG walk Cyril Thompson Bounds of a tin sett on Smallacombe Stream, George Agricola River Lyd?, Mike Brown Crockerntor 1994 Mortarstone wear, Ivor West 1 Tinners of Dartmoor in the late 15th Century – The Bailiff of Blackmoor, Thomas Beare, ed a summary of a seminar at Two Bridges Alan Buckley Hotel, 17 April 1993, Martin Wagrel Nearer The Weather - 500th anniversary of Fieldwork and survey at Wheal Fortune Mine, Crockerntor Great Court, Phil Newman May 1993, Phil Newman Two gentlemen of Hexworthy, Bridget NEWSLETTER 8 Howard Editorial, Phil Newman Dartmoor mine plans - an exciting research Report - Commemorating the 1494 Great resource, Tom Greeves Court of Devon Tinners, Elizabeth Donald Smith 1907-1993 - an appreciation Stanbrook Out Of The Mist [exhibition] DTRG walk 29 October, Peter Hirst DTRG walk 18 September, Elizabeth NEWSLETTER 6 Stanbrook Editorial, Phil Newman Letters DTRG walk 8 August 1993, Mike Brown Summary report on the fourth season of The Golitha Tide, Peter Roberts excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing Miners of Peter Tavy: The evidence of the and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves census returns. Paul Pringle The Brimpts Tin Mine, Roger Bird and Peter Summary report on the third season of Hirst excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing William Ambrose Grose 1886-1994, Tom and Stamping Mill (SX55197664), Tom Greeves Greeves Book Reviews: Heathercombe, The History of NEWSLETTER 9 a Dartmoor Valley, Claude Pike, Editorial, Phil Newman Westcountry Books Minions walk 21 May 1995, John Viant Thurlow's Dartmoor Companion, George A Dartmoor Tin Mine Ledger, Ronald Homer Thurlow, Peninsula Press Meavy Iron Mine, Mike Brown Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor, Tom Field survey in the Walkham Valley 1995, Greeves, Devon Books Phil Newman Dartmoor, Atlas of Antiquities Volume 4, Soussons Forest (NW) Tin Stamping Mill, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books Roger Bird and Peter Hirst Donald Langley Smith 22 June 1907 - 30 June Timber and Tin, Mike Brown 1993. Tom Greeves Book Review: The Dartmoor Stannaries, Paul Hambling, Orchard Publications NEWSLETTER 7 Editorial, Phil Newman NEWSLETTER 10 Phil Newman Agricola conference reports, Editorial, Phil Newman Which way to Crockerntor?, Paul Rendell Walks, Donald Simpson and Hugh Farrer A reconstruction of Upper Merrivale Tin Mill Wheal Druid and the engine houses of in its final phase of working, circa 1700, Dartmoor, Dicon and Damian Nance Robert Waterhouse Nineteenth-century documentary evidence for Fieldwork and survey at Beckamoor Combe Beckamoor Combe 1994. Phil Newman Survey of an openwork on Haytor Down, Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Kit Hill, Andrew Passmore Peter Herring and Nigel Thomas, Cornwall Early tin mills in the Newleycombe Valley, County Council Phil Newman Minions - an Archaeological Survey of the Books and publications Caradon Mining District 1993, Adam Sharpe, Cornwall County Council NEWSLETTER 11 St. Just, An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District 1992, 2 vols, Adam Sharpe, Editorial, John and Catherine Gale Cornwall County Council DTRG AGM 1996, Esmée Sykes 2 Survey of tin streamworks in the Ruddycleave Survey Weekends 19 and 20 April and 10 and Valley, Bob Bruce, Pauline Belsey and 11 May, Tom Greeves Esmée Sykes Visit to Eggworthy and Criptor Mills, The Archaeology of Mining in South West Walkham Valley, Saturday 15 February Britain, Keith Lane 1997, Adrienne Yelland and Richard A tin mill in Widecombe Village, Tom Kitchin Greeves Mining Attractions in Cornwall Field survey weekends, Mike Passmore Rakes' Progress, Shirley Ryan Tin smelting at Golitha Falls Membership, Peter Hirst NEWSLETTER 14 Publications Editorial, John Gale Chagford social evening Walk to Whiteworks and Social Evening at Plume of Feathers, Princetown NEWSLETTER 12 Whiteworks Mine historical notes, Tom Editorial, John Gale Greeves Future events and DTRG publications, John Avon Dam Blowing House, Bob Smerdon Gale Medieval pottery and tinworking, Tom A scrape too far! Life as a volunteer at Upper Greeves Merrivale, John and Elaine Viant The beguiling Brown's House landscape, A probable tin mill at Claziwell, Tom and Richard Horsham Elisabeth Greeves Tin Mining in the valley of the Narrator brook, Avon Dam Blowing House and Furnace. Some Mike Townsend observations and Speculations, Robert Books Reviews: Black Tor Falls and Black Smerdon Tor Falls Tin Mills, Sandy Gerrard, Meavy Summary report of the fifth season of Valley Archaeology Reports 3 and 5 excavations at Upper Merrivale Tin New Writing Blowing and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves A find [Glazemeet Mill], Bob Smerdon Book Review: Exploring the Lower Walkham Membership list, Peter Hirst Valley, Paul Rendell, Forest Publishing Ramsley Mine Chimney DTRG walk 11 August 1996, Andrew Passmore NEWSLETTER 15 Editorial, John Gale NEWSLETTER 13 The DTRG AGM Postbridge 21 March 1998, Editorial, John Gale Elisabeth Greeves The DTRG AGM at Holne, Elisabeth Greeves DTRG AGM excursion, 21 March 1998, Keith Post AGM walk 8 March 1997, Peter Roberts Lane & Richard Horsham DTRG Publications, Peter Hirst Chairman's reports [New Vititer Mine Walk Centre for South Western Historical Studies and Walkham Valley Project], Tom Greeves Restoration work at Upper Merrivale Mill, Outing to Geevor Mine, Richard Kitchin Tom Greeves Torquay tin query, Dave Brewer Avon Dam Blowing House, Tom Greeves Early industry below Brown's House, Richard Of interest [Keaglesborough], Mike Brown Horsham Books Reviews: The Brimpts Tin Mines, Interpretation of tinworking slags in South Dartmeet, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst, West England, Albertine Malham DTRG Brimpts Tin Mines - update, Peter Hirst The Archaeology of Mining and Metallurgy in Ictis, Paul Jeffery South-West Britain, Phil Newman (ed) News from the Peak District Mining Museum, HMS and PDHMS Lynn Willies A seldom quoted tinworking reference from Book Review: The Mines and Mining in the 1664, Roger Bird West, Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press Dartmoor mines in 1799, Tom Greeves Letter to the editor, Peter Hirst 3 NEWSLETTER 16 Crockerntor – The Tinner’s Parliament Editorial, John Gale (poem), James Crowden “A Lyffe in Pyttes and Caves” Letters to the Editor: Ictis Peter Hirst, Roger Tinners Rabbits paperweights Bird, Mike Passmore; Furnaces RJ Smerdon Artefact Drawing at Upper Merrivale, Peter Book Reviews: Transactions of the Hirst Devonshire Association Vol 131 & The Field Excursion to Gobbett tin mine and Deep Historical Atlas of South-west England. Swincombe, Bob Bruce Social Evening Report, John Gale NEWSLETTER 19 Drawing Artefacts, Shirley Ryan The DTRG AGM Chagford 18 March 2000, The 1791 Settlement Examination of John Esmée Sykes Rule, Miner, Mike Brown Kelly Mine Open Day The Whiddon Tin Mine, nr Ashburton, A Brief Report of walk below Grenofen Bridge, Deric Investigation, Roger Bird Munro Letters to the Editor: Ictis, FJ Long, Peter Tinworking in Rushford Wood. Chagford, Hirst and Roger Bird Mike Passmore Book Reviews: The Dartmoor Tin Industry, A Traces of Tin, John Viant Field Guide, Phil Newman; Survey
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