Minas São Domingos, Alentejo, Portugal. 2003.
#SilentSunday #ToxicLegacy #Extractivism #Photography #IndustrialArchaeology
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Thinking of visiting #Denmark on #Holiday, somewhere we've never been before. Any suggestions for places to visit that might not be mentioned in the usual #Tourist guide books? I'm interested in heritage #Railway and #IndustrialArchaeology but anything else unusual or quirky might be of interest.
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Luxulyan Valley, Cornwall
A deep valley full of industrial archaeology, now partially reclaimed by nature: mining, stone quarrying and china clay production that required a robust transport system of tramways, inclines and leats. It includes Treffry Viaduct over the river that ran a tramway on the top and transported water underneath the track.
Superb place. And great weather when we went a week or so ago.
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If you like your adits and industrial archaeology, here's a free, very visual write-up for you about the mile-long Penrhyn quarry drainage adit, built 1847-1849, possibly involving some Latter Day Saint drivers, though we failed to find definitive evidence so far.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/123Y8_sbTebF_sm_AcUcs4BqjjQcNxyeC/view?usp=sharing
#heritage #quarries #mines #slate #wales #cymru #industrialarchaeology #ia
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The Northernmost Kilns: Commondale’s Forgotten Industry
A view up the narrow valley of Commondale, taken from the weathered lime kilns that still cling to the slopes above Coble Hall. Crumbling and defiant, I reckon they must be the most northerly kilns in the North York Moors, silent witnesses to a brief and curious chapter of i ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/10/the-northernmost-kilns-commondales-forgotten-industry/
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Where the Rogsån Meets Varpan
The Rogsån river slips quietly into the northern end of Lake Varpan, where the small settlement of Österå rests. Today it seems peaceful, but in earlier centuries this was a centre of roaring furnaces and hammering waterwheels. From the 1400s until the mid-1800s, copper smelters lined these shores, owned by miners tied to the vast Falu Mine. Wi ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/09/25/where-the-rogsan-meets-varpan/
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Clearing the Past: The Lost Drumhouse of Newton Wood
A morning with the National Trust, cutting back the summer growth from around the brick and stone remains known as the Kip, at the Cliff Rigg end of Newton Wood.
The Kip is the remains of the head of a narrow-gauge tramway incline. Ore ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/01/clearing-the-past-the-lost-drumhouse-of-newton-wood/
#CliffRigg #NewtonWood #NorthYorkMoors #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining #NationalTrust
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Das Beiras ao Alentejo: no sábado, dia 12, também estaremos na Mina de São Domingos, para um Fórum do Património dedicado à mina e à "Importância da Arqueologia Industrial para a Produção de Conhecimento".
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/mina-sao-domingos-forum/
#Histodons #Heritage #IndustrialHeritage #Mining #IndustrialArchaeology #MiningHeritage #Património #PatrimónioMineiro #MinaDeSãoDomingos #Mértola #CulturaEmMértola #PatrimónioIndustrial #ArqueologiaIndustrial #Arqueologia #Archaeology
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Flanders & Swann and the "Hammer Ponds of Sussex"
Some will know exactly where is post is going and probably I have started an 'earworm' for you! If not, read on about some 20th-century culture and a little about the Tudor and Stuart Iron industry in the Sussex Weald.
https://edintone.com/hammer-ponds/
#FlandersAndSwann #Tudor #Stuart #IronIndustry #IndustrialArchaeology #Histodons #Sussex @histodons -
Newton Wood’s Hidden Industrial Heritage
This morning's low cloud cover meant there was no chance of capturing any stunning shots of the Cleveland Hills, so I turned my attention to something closer to the ground.
Folk often ask me about this brick and concrete structure at the Cliff Rigg end of Newton Wood, recently cleared of bracken and brambles by the Nati ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36205
#NewtonWood #NorthYorkMoors #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining #NationalTrust
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The White Flint Legacy of Castleton
At the crest of an old tramway incline from the former silica quarries, once the workings of the Sheffield-based firm J. Grayson Lowood & Co. Ltd., one gazes across the Esk valley. Just off-centre in the distance lies the looming hump of Castleton Rigg, climbing to the highest point of the “Fat Moors.” The village of Castleton itself clings to the f ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36145
#Castleton #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #IndustrialArchaeology
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Runswick Bay’s Ironworks Beneath the Cliff
Today I was at a National Trust property near Runswick Bay, a hidden gem previously unknown to me. Spanning a 5-hectare meadow, this land is a tapestry of ragwort, thistles, docks, and the occasional blackthorn and willow saplings, all requiring occasional management.
The property also boasts 4.5 hectares of precipitous, overgrown cl ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=35943
#RunswickBay #YorkshireCoast #IndustrialArchaeology #NationalTrust
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🏅 Muitos parabéns ao Jorge Custódio que, esta semana, recebeu a Medalha de Ouro do Município de Santarém, sua terra natal, pela sua carreira como como professor, historiador e promotor do património cultural. 👏👏👏
👉 Contamos tudo no nosso site: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/jorge-custodio-santarem/
#Histodons #AcademicLife #Honours #Heritage #Homenagens #Santarém #PatrimónioCultural #ArqueologiaIndustrial #IndustrialArchaeology
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📰 João Sequeira foi um dos arqueólogos chamados a intervir e a registar a memória da antiga serralharia do Hospital de São José, onde trabalhou José Saramago em 1941-42.
A Time Out Lisboa falou com a equipa:
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #Archaeology #IndustrialArchaeology #JoséSaramago #HospitalDeSãoJosé #CHLC #Arqueologia #ArqueologiaContemporânea #ArqueologiaIndustrial #Serralharia #Lisbon #Lisboa
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This spring there is a series of webinars about individual World Heritage Sites. The one for the Forth Bridge is on 8th February.
#WorldHeritage #IndustrialHistory #IndustrialArchaeology #Bridges #RailwayBridge #ForthBridge
World Heritage UK’s 2024 webinar # 2 – The Forth Bridge | World Heritage UK https://worldheritageuk.org/events/21526/
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Grade II listed station due to reopen in Derbyshire on 28 October, the sole survivor of 16 that were originally part of a scheme developed by railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson.
The #IndustrialArchaeology of the East Midlands never ceases to please. #IndustrialHeritage #GoodNews
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The Lower Harbor Ore Dock in #Marquette, #Michigan was used for loading iron mined in Michigan's #UpperPeninsula into freighters on #LakeSuperior to be delivered to production operations in the lower Great Lakes, such as #Detroit and #cleveland. It operated from 1937 to 1971. https://www.travelmarquette.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/ore-docks/
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'Boddin Point Lime Kilns'
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The remains of 18th century lime kilns at Boddin Point, Angus, Scotland, UK
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Available to purchase as beautiful wall art and on amazing products:
https://dave-bowman.pixels.com/featured/boddin-point-lime-kilns-dave-bowman.html
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#LimeKilns #BoddinPoint #AngusScotland #18thCentury #HistoricalSite #ScottishHeritage #LongExposure #ColorPhotography #ScotlandUK #IndustrialArchaeology #davebowmanphotography -
Loch Cuithir and the diatomite industry
What had fascinated me was the peculiar wording on the O.S. map, indicating the presence of a "Dismantled Railway," a six kilometres stretch from the Inver Tote coastline, winding its way towards Loch Cuithir, nestled beneath the formidable Sgurr a' Mhadaidh Ruaidh, aptly dubbed 'the hill of the red fox.'
As it turned out, Loch Cuithir had once been a h ...