Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' stone work
Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' slag tip 1
Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' slag tip 2
Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' slag 1
Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' slag 2
Limb Valley Bole Hill disturbed ground 4
Limb Valley Bole Hill disturbed ground 3
Limb Valley Bole Hill disturbed ground 2
Limb Valley Bole Hill disturbed ground 1
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Bole Hill Plantation - 'holly smelter' site
Limb Valley Bole Hill lead smelting site
The holly tree in the centre of the photo is growing over the stone-walled remains of what was almost certainly a lead smelting bole, high up on the northern edge of the Bole Hill Plantation in the Limb Valley, and possibly of 18th or early 19th century age.
A small square feature, depicting a building or structure of some sort appears on the 1st edition six-inch to one mile Ordnance Survey map published in 1854. It was probably disused even then, as the map shows the plantation all around it. Subsequent editions of the maps fail to show it, although curiously the feature has been resurrected on the latest OS maps, even though the structure has long since disappeared!
There are many 'Bole Hills' in Sheffield and along the west-facing sandstone and gritstone escarpments of the Eastern Edges. Their elevated locations were ideal for wind-blown furnaces ('boles') for smelting lead ore which was brought in by pack-horses from the Peak District mines further to the west.
The holly tree in the centre of the photo is growing over the stone-walled remains of what was almost certainly a lead smelting bole, high up on the northern edge of the Bole Hill Plantation in the Limb Valley, and possibly of 18th or early 19th century age.
A small square feature, depicting a building or structure of some sort appears on the 1st edition six-inch to one mile Ordnance Survey map published in 1854. It was probably disused even then, as the map shows the plantation all around it. Subsequent editions of the maps fail to show it, although curiously the feature has been resurrected on the latest OS maps, even though the structure has long since disappeared!
There are many 'Bole Hills' in Sheffield and along the west-facing sandstone and gritstone escarpments of the Eastern Edges. Their elevated locations were ideal for wind-blown furnaces ('boles') for smelting lead ore which was brought in by pack-horses from the Peak District mines further to the west.
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