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Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry)

England
List entry 1002507
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1002507
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.05 hectares
Grid reference
SX 66833 60310
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Glaze Meet blowing house is a sixteenth-century tin-smelting installation located in Devon, representing a significant phase in the county's medieval and early modern tin-working industry. The site comprises the remains of a blowing house, a structure purpose-built for smelting tin ore using bellows-driven furnaces, which became a characteristic feature of Cornish and Devonian tin production from the fifteenth century onwards. The physical remains at Glaze Meet reflect the technological infrastructure required for ore processing during the height of tin exploitation in the Southwest, with archaeological deposits and structural traces indicative of industrial metalworking activity. Such sites are important archaeological witnesses to the development of proto-industrial manufacturing and the exploitation of mineral resources that sustained local economies during the early modern period.

Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry) is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002507. View the official record →

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What is Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry)?

Glaze Meet blowing house is a sixteenth-century tin-smelting installation located in Devon, representing a significant phase in the county's medieval and early modern tin-working industry. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002507.

Who is responsible for protecting Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry)?

Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry) 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 1002507.

What other scheduled monuments are near Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry)?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (2.5 km), One of a number of cairns at Black Pool (2.6 km), Cairn near the summit of Western Beacon (2.9 km).

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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
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Domesday
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

One of a number of cairns at Black Pool
2.5 km
One of a number of cairns at Black Pool
2.6 km
Cairn near the summit of Western Beacon
2.9 km
Group of three closely spaced cairns on the south-western brow of Western Beacon
3 km
Cairn on the southern brow of Western Beacon
3 km
Stone alignment and cairn south-east of Western Beacon
3.3 km
Bowl barrow 660m south west of Woodland Barton
4.3 km
Ringwork and bailey castle 400m south of Langford Barton
4.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry)

Glaze Meet blowing house (Tinner's Foundry) stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

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