charcoal-heaps

Updated: May 2, 2025

And all the while so unequal is fortune when God so wills throughout the Southern Weald, from Hastings to Hind-head, every copse glared with charcoal-heaps, every glen was burrowed with iron diggings, every hammer-pond stamped and gurgled night and day, smelting and forging English iron, wherewith the Frenchmen might slay Englishmen.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English