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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 →
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.
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.
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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