SECTION 3 - BOOK REVIEWS

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Alluvial Records of Medieval and Prehistoric Tin Mining on Dartmoor, Thorndycraft et al. Geoarchaeology 19, 3. NEWSLETTER 29

Angerstein’s Travels (see Furnaces to cucumbers)

Archaeological Survey and Excavation at Wheal Prosper Tin Stamps, Lanivet, Gerrard, S and Sharpe, A. Cornish Archaeology 24, 1985. NEWSLETTER 7

 

Balmaidens, Lynne Mayers. Hypatia Trust 2004 £20 NEWSLETTER 29

Black Tor, and Black Tor Falls Tin Mills, Sandy Gerrard, Meavy Valley Archaeology Reports 3 and 5, 1997. Privately Printed. NEWSLETTER 14

Blowing and Knocking: The Dartmoor Tin Mill Before 1750, Tom Greeves. Dartmoor Magazine 23, pp 18-20, 1991. NEWSLETTER 1

Boveycombehedd, Andrew Passmore. Transactions of the Devonshire Association 131, 1999. NEWSLETTER 18 (mentioned but not reviewed), NEWSLETTER 19

 

Characteristics of Tin Streaming Channels on Dartmoor, Stephen Bradley. Geoarchaeology 5, pp 29-41. 1990. NEWSLETTER 1

Cornish Mining, Bryan Earl, Cornish Hillside, 1994 £11.99. NEWSLETTER 22

 

Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Jeremy Butler. Devon Books. Vol. 1 The East, £9.95; Vol. 2 The North. £12.95. NEWSLETTER 2; Vol. 4, The South East. £12.95. NEWSLETTER 6

Dartmoor – Landscapes through time, Sandy Gerrard, Batsford, 1997, £15.99 NEWSLETTER 16

Devon’s Earliest Tin Coinage. Tom Greeves, Transactions of the Devonshire Association 135, 2003. NEWSLETTER 28

Draft Guidelines for Underground Fieldwork, Removal of Artefacts, NAMHO. NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Druid Mine, Ashburton, Phil Newman, Transactions of the Devonshire Association 135, 2003. NEWSLETTER 28

 

Early Metallurgical Sites in Great Britain BC2000 to AD1500, C. R. Blick (Ed). Available from the Institute of Metals. NEWSLETTER 2

Early Mining in the British Isles. Proceedings of the Early Mining Workshop at Plas Tan Y Bwlch, November 1989, Crew, P. and Crew, S. (editors) 1990. £10. NEWSLETTER 1

Exploring the Lower Walkham Valley, Paul Rendell. Forest Publishing. £3. NEWSLETTER 12

Explosives, Gypsies and Strawberries, Tom Greeves, Devon Life Vol 4 No 12 2000. NEWSLETTER 19

 

Four Deserted Medieval Settlements on Buckland Down, West Devon, Tom Greeves and Alan Rowe. Transactions of the Devonshire Association 131, 1999. NEWSLETTER 18 (mentioned but not reviewed), NEWSLETTER 19

Furnaces to cucumbers: The Illustrated Travels of a Swede in Britain 1753-55, RR Angerstein, trans Torsten and Peter Berg, Science Museum, £34.95. NEWSLETTER 23; NEWSLETTER 24

 

Gold in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, Simon Camm. Cornish Hillside Publications. £9.65. NEWSLETTER 10 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Great Rock, Tony Brooks, Cornish Hillside. NEWSLETTER 28

Guidelines for the Leisure Use of Mines, NAMHO. NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Guidelines for Recording the Underground Archaeology of Mines, NAMHO. NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

 

Heathercombe, The History of a Dartmoor Valley, Claude Pike. Westcountry Books. £9.95. NEWSLETTER 6

Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Tin Mines, Phil Newman, English Heritage. NEWSLETTER 28

 

Images of Cornish Tin, Alan Stoyel & Peter Williams. English Heritage National Monuments Register, £29.50 NEWSLETTER 22 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, Helen Harris. Peninsula Press. £14.95. NEWSLETTER 4

 

Metallurgical Sites in Britain: Priorities for Research and Preservation. Available from the Institute of Metals. NEWSLETTER 1

Metal Mines of Llanengan, J Bennet & R Vernon Gwyder Mines Publication NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Mike Brown’s Guide to Dartmoor CD-ROM, Mike Brown. Dartmoor Press, 2001 £10.50. NEWSLETTER 21 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Mines of Cornwall and Devon, Peter Stanier, Twelveheads Press, £15.00. NEWSLETTER 23

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

Research Society. £9.95. NEWSLETTER 4

Mines of Devon, AK Hamilton Jenkins. Landmark, £19.95, (mentioned but not reviewed). NEWSLETTER 30

Mining Before Powder, T.D. Ford and L. Willies. Peak District Mines Historical Society and the Historical Metallurgy Society. NEWSLETTER 9 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Mining in Cornwall, Vol 4, Hayle Kerrier & Carrier, LJ Bullen, Tempus, £10.99 2001 NEWSLETTER 22 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Minions - An Archaeological Survey of the Caradon Mining District, Adam Sharpe. Cornwall County Council, 1993. £12. NEWSLETTER 7

Mining and Quarrying in the Teign Valley, Stafford Clark. Orchard Publications. £4.95. NEWSLETTER 10 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Mountains and Orefields, Nigel Jones, Mark Walters & Pat Frost, Council for British Archaeology 2004 £19.95. NEWSLETTER 30

 

Ramsley Copper Mine, South Zeal, Dartmoor, Tom Greeves. Archive 7, June 1995. NEWSLETTER 10 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Research and Excavation at a Tin Stamping Site, Cupboard Hill, United Downs, Cornwall, AL Jones and L Willies Bull Peak District Mines Hist Soc. 13, 1998. NEWSLETTER 16

Retallack: A Late Medieval Tin Mining Complex in the Parish of Constantine, and its Cornish Context, Sandy Gerrard, Cornish Archaeology 24, 1985. NEWSLETTER 7

 

St. Just - An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District, Adam Sharpe. Cornwall County Council. 1992. £15 (2 x vols). NEWSLETTER 7

 

The Archaeology of Dartmoor: Perspectives from the 1990s. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society 52, 1994. NEWSLETTER 11

The Archaeology of Kit Hill, Peter Herring and Nigel Thomas. Cornwall County Council, 1990. £10. NEWSLETTER 7 (mentioned but not reviewed)

The Archaeology of Mining and Metallurgy in South-West Britain, Philip Newman (ed). PDHMS and HMS. 1996. £10. NEWSLETTER 13

The Bailiff of Blackmoor, Thomas Beare. Alien Buckley. 1994. £25. NEWSLETTER 7

The Brimpts Tin Mines, Dartmeet, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst. DTRG. 1997. £4.95. NEWSLETTER 13

The Dartmoor Bibliography, Peter Hamilton-Leggett. Devon Books in association with the DNP, 1992. £25. NEWSLETTER 4

The Dartmoor Stannaries, Paul Hambling. Orchard Publications. £3.95. NEWSLETTER 9

The Dartmoor Tin Industry, A Field Guide, Phil Newman, Chercombe Press £4.95 1998 NEWSLETTER 16

The Dartmoor Tin Industry, Mike Brown, Industrial Heritage 27 (2) 2001 NEWSLETTER 22 (mentioned but not reviewed)

The Early British Tin Industry, Sandy Gerrard, Tempus, 2000, £14.99. NEWSLETTER 19 (mentioned but not reviewed); reviewed in NEWSLETTER 20

The Great Laxey Mine, Andrew Scarffe, Manx Heritage Foundation 2004 £19.99. NEWSLETTER 30

The Historical Atlas of South-west England. R Kain and W Ravenhill (Eds) University of Exeter Press, 1999. NEWSLETTER 18 (mentioned but not reviewed), NEWSLETTER 19

The History of the Cheadle Coalfield, Herbert A Chester, Landmark Publishing NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

The Industrial Revolution in Metals, Joan Day and R.F. Tylecote (eds). The Institute of Metals. £37.50. NEWSLETTER 3

The Mechanics of Optimism, Jeffrey J Safford University Press Colorado 2004 £28,50 NEWSLETTER 30

The Medieval and Early Modern Cornish Stamping Mill, Sandy Gerrard. Industrial Archaeology Review 10/1, pp 9-19, 1989. NEWSLETTER 1

The Mines and Mining in the West, Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press, £1.30. NEWSLETTER 15

The Mines and Mining Men of Menheniot, Stephen Bartlett. Twelveheads Press. 1994. £15.95. NEWSLETTER 7 (mentioned but not reviewed)

The Rise and Demise of a Dartmoor Mine: The Wheal Friendship Minute Book and Ledgers 1816-1876, Mike Brown. Dartmoor Press £4.50. NEWSLETTER 10 (mentioned but not reviewed)

The Story of Mining in Cornwall, Allan Buckley, Cornwall Editions 2005 £45 NEWSLETTER 30

The Warren House Inn, Tom Greeves & Elisabeth Stanbrook. Quay Publications, 2001, £4.95. NEWSLETTER 22

Thurlow's Dartmoor Companion, George Thurlow. Peninsula Press. £14.95. NEWSLETTER 6

Tin and Agriculture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Landscape Archaeology in St. Neot Parish Cornwall, Austin, D, Greeves, T, and Gerrard, G.A.M. Cornish Archaeology 28 pp 5-251. 1989. NEWSLETTER 1

Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor, Tom Greeves. Devon Books. £6.95. NEWSLETTER 6

Tinners and Tenants on South-West Dartmoor: A Case Study in Landscape History, P Newman. TDA 126, pp 199-238, 1994. NEWSLETTER 9 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Tin Streaming on Harford Moor (Extract from Devonport Journal 5th Jan 1860) NEWSLETTER 29

Tin Streams of Wendron, Justin Brook. Twelveheads Press. 1994. £12.95. NEWSLETTER 7 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Tudor and Stuart Devon - The Common Estate and Government. Grey, T. et al (eds). University of Exeter Press, 1992. £25. NEWSLETTER 4

 

Walkhampton Parish History, and Dartmoor Family History Index (Walkhampton) Mike Brown. Dartmoor Press. NEWSLETTER 22 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Water Power in Mining, Peter Claughton (Ed), NAMHO Conference. Mining History 15 No 4/5 2004 NEWSLETTER 30

Week Ford Tin Mills Dartmoor, P Newman. Proc Devon Arch Soc 51, 1993. 185-197. NEWSLETTER 9 (mentioned but not reviewed)

Work in the Woods, Chris Morris Tanner’s Yard Press NEWSLETTER 26 (mentioned but not reviewed)

 

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