Introduction to the DTRG, Tom Greeves

Who’s who and why?, Phil Newman

Upper Merrivale Tin Mill and its context, Tom Greeves

Earthwork survey at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing Mill, Sandy Gerrard

Sixty-two years of progress [Upper Merrivale]

Money matters

Crossed wires

Book Reviews: Metallurgical Sites in Britain: Priorities for Research and Preservation. Available from the Institute of Metals

Early Mining in the British Isles. Proceedings of the Early Mining Workshop at Plas Tan Y Bwlch

Conferences

Honorary members

Ingots found off South Devon Coast [Bigbury Bay]

Devon Record Office

Cuttings [articles featuring the DTRG]

Summary report on the excavation of Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill (SX55197664), Sandy Gerrard and Tom Greeves

Documentary research on the Walkham Valley

Crockerntor 1994

Crockerntor, Mike Brown

Book Reviews: Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain BC2000 to AD 1500. Available from the Institute of Metals

Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol.1 The East, Vol.2 The North, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books

DTRG AGM

Walkham Valley research

Crockerntor 1994

New galleries at museum [of Dartmoor Life]

DTRG walk

Bounds of a tin sett on Smallacombe Stream, River Lyd?, Mike Brown

Mortarstone wear, Ivor West

The Beckamoor Combe Stream survey. Sandy Gerrard

Upper Merrivale Mill and the Civil War, Mike Dickinson

Book Review: The Industrial Revolution in Metals, Joan Day and R.F. Tylecote (eds), The Institute of Metals

Outcombe Tin Mill in Sheepstor Parish: a survey of the field remains, Peter and Paul Castle, Malcolm, Gill and Nicholas Giles

John Robins - a tribute

New mortarstone exposed at mill [right bank, Lower Hartor Tor, River Plym]

Mortarstone at Keaglesborough

Tin streamworks - a salutary tale [Cornwall]

Bigbury Bay ingots

RCHME survey of tinworks

Summary report on the second season of excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill 1992, Sandy Gerrard and Tom Greeves

Book Reviews: The Dartmoor Bibliography, Peter Hamilton-Leggett, Devon Books in association with DNP

Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, Helen Harris, Peninsula Press

Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley after 1913, P.H.G. Richardson, NMRS

Tudor and Stuart Devon - The Common Estate and Government, Grey, T. et al [eds], University of Exeter Press

Other Publications [involving the DTRG and tinworking]

Extract from ‘Prospectus of Mr Webb’s Plan for Exploring Mines; together with the Original and Present Prices of Mines 1807’

DTRG AGM 20 March 1993

High Moorland Visitor Centre, Princetown

Visit to Southill Leat and Mill, 19 June 1993, Cyril Thompson

George Agricola

Crockerntor 1994

Tinners of Dartmoor in the late 15th Century – a summary of a seminar at Two Bridges Hotel, 17 April 1993, Martin Wagrel

Fieldwork and survey at Wheal Fortune Mine, May 1993, Phil Newman

Two gentlemen of Hexworthy, Bridget Howard

Dartmoor mine plans - an exciting research resource, Tom Greeves

Donald Smith 1907-1993 - an appreciation

Out Of The Mist [exhibition]

Editorial, Phil Newman

DTRG walk 8 August 1993, Mike Brown

The Golitha Tide, Peter Roberts

Miners of Peter Tavy: The evidence of the census returns. Paul Pringle

Summary report on the third season of excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill (SX55197664), Tom Greeves

Book Reviews: Heathercombe, The History of a Dartmoor Valley, Claude Pike, Westcountry Books

Thurlow's Dartmoor Companion, George Thurlow, Peninsula Press

Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor, Tom Greeves, Devon Books

Dartmoor, Atlas of Antiquities Volume 4, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books

Donald Langley Smith 22 June 1907 - 30 June 1993. Tom Greeves

Editorial, Phil Newman

Agricola conference reports, Phil Newman

Which way to Crockerntor?, Paul Rendell

A reconstruction of Upper Merrivale Tin Mill in its final phase of working, circa 1700, Robert Waterhouse

Fieldwork and survey at Beckamoor Combe 1994. Phil Newman

Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Kit Hill, Peter Herring and Nigel Thomas, Cornwall County Council

Minions - an Archaeological Survey of the Caradon Mining District 1993, Adam Sharpe, Cornwall County Council

St. Just, An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District 1992, 2 vols, Adam Sharpe, Cornwall County Council

The Bailiff of Blackmoor, Thomas Beare, ed Alan Buckley

Nearer The Weather - 500th anniversary of Crockerntor Great Court, Phil Newman

Editorial, Phil Newman

Report - Commemorating the 1494 Great Court of Devon Tinners, Elizabeth Stanbrook

DTRG walk 29 October, Peter Hirst

DTRG walk 18 September, Elizabeth Stanbrook

Letters

Summary report on the fourth season of excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves

The Brimpts Tin Mine, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst

William Ambrose Grose 1886-1994, Tom Greeves

Editorial, Phil Newman

Minions walk 21 May 1995, John Viant

A Dartmoor Tin Mine Ledger, Ronald Homer

Meavy Iron Mine, Mike Brown

Field survey in the Walkham Valley 1995, Phil Newman

Soussons Forest (NW) Tin Stamping Mill, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst

Timber and Tin, Mike Brown

Book Review: The Dartmoor Stannaries, Paul Hambling, Orchard Publications

Editorial, Phil Newman

Walks, Donald Simpson and Hugh Farrer

Wheal Druid and the engine houses of Dartmoor, Dicon and Damian Nance

Nineteenth-century documentary evidence for Beckamoor Combe

Survey of an openwork on Haytor Down, Andrew Passmore

Early tin mills in the Newleycombe Valley, Phil Newman

Books and publications

Editorial, John and Catherine Gale

DTRG AGM 1996, Esmée Sykes

Survey of tin streamworks in the Ruddycleave Valley, Bob Bruce, Pauline Belsey and Esmée Sykes

The Archaeology of Mining in South West Britain, Keith Lane

A tin mill in Widecombe Village, Tom Greeves

Field survey weekends, Mike Passmore

Tin smelting at Golitha Falls

Membership, Peter Hirst

Publications

Chagford social evening

Editorial, John Gale

Future events and DTRG publications, John Gale

A scrape too far! Life as a volunteer at Upper Merrivale, John and Elaine Viant

A probable tin mill at Claziwell, Tom and Elisabeth Greeves

Avon Dam Blowing House and Furnace. Some observations and Speculations, Robert Smerdon

Summary report of the fifth season of excavations at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves

Book Review: Exploring the Lower Walkham Valley, Paul Rendell, Forest Publishing

DTRG walk 11 August 1996, Andrew Passmore

Editorial, John Gale

The DTRG AGM at Holne, Elisabeth Greeves

Post AGM walk 8 March 1997, Peter Roberts

DTRG Publications, Peter Hirst

Centre for South Western Historical Studies

Restoration work at Upper Merrivale Mill, Tom Greeves

Avon Dam Blowing House, Tom Greeves

Of interest [Keaglesborough], Mike Brown

Books Reviews: The Brimpts Tin Mines, Dartmeet, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst, DTRG

The Archaeology of Mining and Metallurgy in South-West Britain, Phil Newman (ed) HMS and PDHMS

A seldom quoted tinworking reference from 1664, Roger Bird

Dartmoor mines in 1799, Tom Greeves

Survey Weekends 19 and 20 April and 10 and 11 May, Tom Greeves

Visit to Eggworthy and Criptor Mills, Walkham Valley, Saturday 15 February 1997, Adrienne Yelland and Richard Kitchin

Mining Attractions in Cornwall

Rakes' Progress, Shirley Ryan

Editorial, John Gale

Walk to Whiteworks and Social Evening at Plume of Feathers, Princetown

Whiteworks Mine historical notes, Tom Greeves

Avon Dam Blowing House, Bob Smerdon

Medieval pottery and tinworking, Tom Greeves

The beguiling Brown's House landscape, Richard Horsham

Tin Mining in the valley of the Narrator brook, Mike Townsend

Books Reviews: Black Tor Falls and Black Tor Falls Tin Mills, Sandy Gerrard, Meavy Valley Archaeology Reports 3 and 5

New Writing

A find [Glazemeet Mill], Bob Smerdon

Membership list, Peter Hirst

Ramsley Mine Chimney

Editorial, John Gale

The DTRG AGM Postbridge 21 March 1998, Elisabeth Greeves

DTRG AGM excursion, 21 March 1998, Keith Lane & Richard Horsham

Chairman's reports [New Vititer Mine Walk and Walkham Valley Project], Tom Greeves

Outing to Geevor Mine, Richard Kitchin

Torquay tin query, Dave Brewer

Early industry below Brown's House, Richard Horsham

Interpretation of tinworking slags in South West England, Albertine Malham

Brimpts Tin Mines - update, Peter Hirst

Ictis, Paul Jeffery

News from the Peak District Mining Museum, Lynn Willies

Book Review: The Mines and Mining in the West, Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press

Letter to the editor, Peter Hirst

Editorial, John Gale

"A Lyffe in Pyttes and Caves"

Tinners Rabbits paperweights

Artefact Drawing at Upper Merrivale, Peter Hirst

Field Excursion to Gobbett tin mine and Deep Swincombe, Bob Bruce

Social Evening Report, John Gale

Drawing Artefacts, Shirley Ryan

The 1791 Settlement Examination of John Rule, Miner, Mike Brown

The Whiddon Tin Mine, nr Ashburton, A Brief Investigation, Roger Bird

Letters to the Editor: Ictis, FJ Long, Peter Hirst and Roger Bird

Book Reviews: The Dartmoor Tin Industry, A Field Guide, Phil Newman;

Dartmoor – Landscapes through time, Sandy Gerrard

New Writing

Ramsley Mine, Owen Baker

New Members

Editorial, John Gale

The DTRG AGM Meavy 20 March 1999, Esmée Sykes

Excursion from Cadover Bridge, Kath Brewer

Report on the Recent Work in the Walkham Valley, Tom Greeves and Andrew Passmore

The Enigmatic Tinworking Below Brown’s House, Mike Passmore

KMPS and DTRG, Peter Hirst

The Mary Tavy/Peter Tavy Excursion, Deric Munro

Tolgus Tin and the Blue Hills, John Gale

Survey of Tin Streamworks in the Ruddycleave Valley, Second Interim Report, Bob Bruce

Letters to the Editor: Ictis, Paul Jeffrey, Roger Bird and Geoff Walford.

Ringleshutes Mine Walk and Social Evening, Church House Inn, Holne, Bob Bruce

Fieldwork and Post-Excavation Update, Tom Greeves and Andrew Passmore

A Pottery Sherd from Gobbet Mill, AndrewPassmore

The Devon Sites and Monuments Register, Frances Griffith

Crockerntor – The Tinner’s Parliament (poem), James Crowden

Letters to the Editor: Ictis Peter Hirst, Roger Bird, Mike Passmore; Furnaces RJ Smerdon

Book Reviews: Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol 131 & The Historical Atlas of South-west England.

The DTRG AGM Chagford 18 March 2000, Esmée Sykes

Kelly Mine Open Day

Report of walk below Grenofen Bridge, Deric Munro

Tinworking in Rushford Wood. Chagford, Mike Passmore

Traces of Tin, John Viant

Survey weekends at Over Tor Brook, Andrew Passmore

Golden Dagger Tin Mine, Andrew Passmore

A Pottery Sherd from Vitifer Mine, Andrew Passmore

Letters to the Editor: Nick Walter

Pauline Belsey – A Tribute

Publications on Tin and Slag, Tom Greeves and Owen Baker

Book Reviews: "Boveycombehedd" & Four Deserted Settlements on Buckland Down, from Transactions of the Devonshire Association Vol 131;

The Historical Atlas of South-west England; Explosives, Gypsies and Strawberries, Tom Greeves;

Early British Tin Industry, Sandy Gerrard.

Visit to the Brendon Hills Iron Mines, Nick Walter

400^th Anniversary of the Great Court of Devon Tinners, Owen Baker

Tin in the Year 2000 in the Central European Region, Tom Greeves

Waye Estate, Ashburton, Mike Brown

Huntingdon Mine, Tom Greeves

Francis Warne – an appreciation, Tom Greeves

Miners of Western Dartmoor in 1851, Mike Brown

An Unrecorded Mortar Stone at Fardel Manor, Cornwood, Bob Bruce

West Wheal Robert Mine – planning application for a One-2-One mast

Book Review: The Early British Tin Industry, Sandy Gerrard, Tempus;

The Interest Groups of the Tin Industry in England c1580-1640, Mariko Mizui, PhD thesis;

An Electric Stove and Ingenuity, Tom Greeves, Devon Life Vol 5 No3

The DTRG AGM Clearbrook 14 July 2001 Colin Wakeham

Messages from the new and departing Chairmen

Tinworking in Central Europe Nick Walter

Tenth AGM Excursion Deric Munro

Extracts from the DTRG Tenth Anniversary Display Bob Bruce

Research Ideas Bob Bruce

Shaugh Moor and Blackabrook Valley saved from Clayworking

William Flewin – A Family Link Wth Golden Dagger and Birch Tor Mines 80 Years Ago Tom Greeves

Correspondence: The Bishop of Exeter Nick Walter; Limekilns Bob Bruce; Fardel Manor Mortar Stone Bob Bruce

Editorial John Gale

DTRG visit to Eylesbarrow Mine Anne Whitbourn

Visit to Vitiver and Birch Tor Mines, and Social Evening at the Plume of Feathers, Princetown Anne Whitbourn

Objection to Planning Application (to phone mast at Wheal Robert) Owen Baker (see also Stop Press, p12)

Appeal for specimens of slag for analysis

Over Tor Brookhead Survey Bob Bruce

Book Reviews: Images of Cornish Tin, Stoyel & Williams, English Heritage National Monuments Record;

The Warren House Inn, Greeves & Stanbrook, Quay Publications;

Walkhampton Parish History (web page), Mike Brown;

Dartmoor Family History Index, Walkhampton (CD ROM), Mike Brown ;

The Dartmoor Tin Industry, Industrial Heritage 27 (2), Mike Brown;

Mining in Cornwall Vol 4, LJ Bullen, Tempus;

Cornish Mining, Bryan Earl, Cornish Hillside

Letters to the Editor: The Oxford Letters DMP Westaway

DTRG Symposium on Future Directions for Research, Belstone 23 March 2002 Anne Whitbourn

The DTRG AGM Holne 20 April 2002 Bob Bruce

Visit to Brimpts Tin Mines 20 April 2002 Anne Whitbourn

Book Reviews: Furnaces to cucumbers, RR Angerstein (trans Torsten & Peter Berg) Science Mus;

Mines of Cornwall & Devon, P Stanier, Twelveheads Press

Unusual Mortarstone Discovered at Ailsborough, Sheepstor Tom Greeves

1859 cutting on "Mining in the Tavistock District" John Gale

Survey Weekends, Greena Ball Bob Bruce

DTRG visit to Lower Meavy Valley 12 May 2002 Anne Whitbourn

Hensroost Mine Track Public Enquiry

Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre

King Edward Training Mine Bob Bruce

Visit to Tinworking sites in the Upper Walkham Valley 31^st August 2002 Mike Hedges

Visit to Rosedale Mine and Blue Hills Tin Streams 28^th September 2002 Judith Farmer

Wheelpits and Pasties – a day out with the DTRG Mike Passmore

Greena Ball Streamwork Bob Bruce

King’s Ford Streamworks Bob Bruce

Plane Table Surveying – how is it done? Anne Whitbourn

The DTRG Questionnaire Bob Bruce

Book Review: Angerstein’s Travels 1753-55

Geevor Tin Mine

Ruddycleave/Blackslade Water Survey Bob Bruce

The DTRG Website Tony Jewell

Editorial John Gale

DTRG Chairman’s Report – AGM, Belstone 22^nd March 2003 Owen Baker

Belstone Walk 22^nd March 2003 John Viant

Report on Upper Merrivale Pos-Excavation Work and On Walkham Valley Project 22^nd March 2003 Tom Greeves

Walk to Hensroost and Hooten Wheals mines Hugh Farrer

Use of handheld GPS units for surveying limits of streamworks Bill Radcliffe

A Mortarstone on Pinchaford Ball Phil Newman

Dead Lake Streamwork Survey Bob Bruce

Future Projects? Bob Bruce

Draft map of SW "access land" published Bob Bruce

Retyped transcript of Sale Notice for Gobbet mine Nick Walter

The DTRG AGM Belstone 22^nd March 2003 Esmée Sykes

What does "Post-Excavation" mean? – Progress on Upper Merrivale Tin Mill Tom Greeves

Analysis of Dartmoor Slags Albertine Malham

A guided walk and social evening with the DTRG Stephen Holley

Dead Lake Streamwork – Survey Report Bob Bruce

Visit to King Edward Mine, Camborne Peter Hirst

South Crofty reopens Nick Walter

NAMHO News Stephen Holley

DTRG AGM Scorriton 6 March 2004 Esmée Sykes

Chairman’s Hello Phil Newman

Deadlake Streamworks Survey Bob Bruce

GPS Workshop Mike Passmore

Second GPS Workshop Bob Bruce

Tin Slag Finds Deric Munro

A Surveying Jig Deric Munro and Bill Radcliffe

Tin Ore Identification Seminar Tim Whitbourn

Post-AGM talk: Tin and Lead Dressing Floors Lee Gillibrand

Visit to Wheal Combestone and Week Ford Anne Whitbourn

Visit to Early Cornish Tin Mills Anne Whitbourn

DTRG Code of Conduct

NAMHO News Stephen Holley

Peter Hirst: A Perspective John Gale

Greetings from New Zealand Chris Davie

Visit to East Vitifer Mine Nick Walter

Tin Working at North Bovey Nick Walter

Primitive Ore Crushing Nick Walter

Review: English Heritage Survey Report, Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Tin Mines Nick Walter

Early Iron Working on Exmoor. Report of 4^th Exmoor Archaeology Forum Nick Walter

Field Excursion, Newleycombe Valley, 13^th July 2003 Geoffrey Adams

Letter to the Editor: Comment on Report on Post-AGM talk Tony Brooks

The 700^th Anniversary of the Tinner’s Charter in 1305 Phil Newman

Bagtor Enigmas: DTRG Walk and Social 16^th October 2004 Mike Passmore

Alidades "ain’t what they used to be" Phil Newman

Visit to Kelly Mine, Lustleigh and Caseleigh Blowing House, Sunday 18^th April 2004 Bob Bruce

New Publications: Devon’s Earliest Tin Coinage 1302-3, by Tom Greeves, Great Rock, by Tony Brooks and Druid Mine, Ashburton by Phil Newman

NAMHO News Stephen Holley

Peter Hirst obituary DTRG (with thanks to Tony Beard)

Editorial Chris Kelland

Chagford 700th Charter Anniversary Tom Greeves

The DTRG AGM Postbridge 19 March 2005 Esmée Sykes

Post AGM Talk: Great Rock ‘Shiny Ore’ Mine, by Tony Brooks. Stephen Holley

AGM afternoon visit East Birch Tor Mine Stephen Holley

Conservation Work at Caroline Wheal Prosper Geoffrey Adams

NAMHO Regional Research Seminar, 9th April 2005 Anne Whitbourn

Visit to West Penwith 19th April Owen Baker

Book Review: Balmaidens, by Lynne Mayers Judith Farmer

Tinner’s Hut Recording Day Phil Newman

Dartmoor - Two Hundred Years Ago Nick Walter

Male or Bastard Tin Chris Kelland

Early Iron Working on Exmoor: An Update Nick Walter

Editorial Phil Newman

Field Trip to the Upper Plym Valley, Saturday 4th June 2005 Val Barns

Field Trip to North Dartmoor, 7th August 2005 Hugh Farrer

Remembering Peter Hirst Judith Farmer

DTRG Walk and Social, 15th October 2005 Nick Walter

"Alidades ain’t what they used to be" Lyn Willies

Bronze Age Axe Casting in the 21st Century Tim Whitbourn

NAMHO News Stephen Holley

Use of Handheld GPS for Survey: 2nd and 3rd Workshops Bob Bruce

Walkham Valley Streamwork Surveys 2005 Bob Bruce

New Access and a New Map Bob Bruce

Book Reviews: The Mechanics of Optimism, Jeffrey J Safford; Mountains and Orefields,Nigel Jones, Mark Walters & Pat Frost; The Story of Mining in Cornwall, Allan Buckley; The Great Laxey Mine, Andrew Scarffe; Water Power in Mining, Peter Claughton (Ed) Phil Newman

Editorial Phil Newman.

Brimpts Trail Officially Opened to the Public Again Anne Whitbourn

2006 AGM: Field Visit to Yeoland Consols Bob Smerdon

Ailsborough Mine – Lopes v. Deacon 1842 Tom Greeves

The Atlas Burning House Nick Walter

Workshop Report – Use of Handheld GPS for Survey 4^th Workshop – 23^rd February 2006 Bob Bruce

Research Report – Walkham Valley Stream-work Surveys Bob Bruce

DTRG Legacy of the late Peter Neaverson Phil Newman

Visit to Botallack April 25^th 2006 Judith Farmer

DTRG Walk – Foxtor Mire, Natural History Notes Val Barns

References to Yeoland Mine, Judith Farmer