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Although the West End site has long been known, Straker accorded it only three and a half lines of text, and Cleere & Crossley precious little more, the actual location of the furnace was a mystery until recently, and a small bay less than a kilometre up a tributary seems to have gone unreported. In December 1982 the single-track road bridge over the stream, and about 10m below the bay, was removed because of its structural failure. This exposed sections through the road embankments, and on the south side revealed an area of burnt clay about 3m across by up to 1m in depth. It appears that this was the site of the furnace.