A bole hill (also spelt bail hill) was a place where lead was formerly smelted in the open air. The bole was usually situated at or near the top of a hill where the wind was strong.
Totley Bole Hill on the western fringes of Sheffield consisted of a long low wall with two shorter walls at right angles to it at each end. At the base of a bole 20 feet (6.1 m) long were laid great trees called blocks. On these were laid blackwork, partly smelted ore about half a yard thick. Then came ten or twelve trees called shankards. On top of these three or four courses of fire trees were laid with fresh ore. This was ignited and burnt for about 48 hours. This smelted lead, which ran down channels provided for the purpose and was cast into sows of about 11 hundredweight. A single firing produced 16 fothers of lead (about 18 tons) from 160 loads of ore (about 40 tons) and 30 tons of wood. Much of the ore was left incompletely smelted having become blackwork. Some of this was smelted in a foot-pump blown furnace, but some was left to be used when the bole was next fired. Bole smelting was replaced by smelting in smeltmills in the late 16th century. That was in turn replaced by smelting in cupolas, a variety of reverberatory furnace in the 18th century.
A bolehill (also spelt bail hill) was a place where lead was formerly smelted in the open air. The bole was usually situated at or near the top of a hill...
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lead or other metals. The older method of smelting lead on wind-blown bolehills began to be superseded by artificially-blown smelters. The first such...
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high Salt Cellar with the edge visible in the background "Back Tor". www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2016. Richards, Mark (1985). High Peak...
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much of Cheshire and views stretching as far as Snowdon in Wales and Winter Hill in Lancashire. The Roaches are the most prominent part of a curving ridge...
moors of Bleaklow and Black Hill, which are of similar elevation; the Pennine Way long-distance footpath crosses the three hills on its route from nearby...
nailmaking smeltmill increased the output of lead over previous methods (bolehill) Some of the technologies were the arquebus and the musket. The technologies...
Mary's church are now part of the Sheffield College campus. BoleHill Primary School on BoleHill Road closed in the early 1990s. In 1875, John Ruskin founded...
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room. However his first really prestigious project was the planning of BoleHill Board School at Walkley. At that time Sheffield was in a flurry of school...
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the site in 1988. There is public access to the area. Bleaklow Head at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2016 Pilton, Barry (1986). One Man and...
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variously interpreted as Roman or early Medieval, has been found at BoleHill. The Domesday Book records that, in 1066, Hathersage was held by Leofric...
High Peak Estate. High Stones is about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Margery Hill which, at 546m, is the highest marked point within Sheffield. High Stones...
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