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Bower Spring cementation furnace is a rare surviving example of an eighteenth-century industrial structure located in Yorkshire. The furnace represents an important stage in steel production, specifically the cementation process by which blister steel was manufactured from iron bars through prolonged heating with carbonaceous material. Dating to the Georgian period, the monument preserves physical evidence of the technological methods that underpinned Yorkshire's development as a centre of steel manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution. The structure's survival makes it of considerable archaeological and industrial heritage significance for understanding the material culture and production techniques of early modern metalworking.
Bower Spring cementation furnace is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004795. View the official record →
Bower Spring cementation furnace is a rare surviving example of an eighteenth-century industrial structure located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004795.
Bower Spring cementation furnace is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1004795.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cementation furnace, Hoyle Street (0.4 km), Manor Lodge (2.7 km), Hoffman Kiln between Aizlewood Road and Cutts Terrace (2.9 km).
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Bower Spring cementation furnace stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.