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Here's another photo of the furnace in context with the surrounding buildings ( Circa 1900 Castle Hill ) In 2016 Wessex Archaeology excavated part of the site ( 2016 Excavations ) Their Trench 1 which included part of the cone site found pieces of ‘crozzle’, (residue produced from furnace lining made from wheelswarf) and pieces of ganister, providing evidence to support the proximity of Trench 1 to a furnace. They stated that "No [documentary] evidence of steel production by R. & J. Smith could be found and it seemed likely that the furnace shown on Goad’s 1896 map was decommissioned and possibly later demolished during R. & J. Smith’s tenure of the site."