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This was the site of Hanson's Foundry and Furnace. Gun trunnions were marked with a 'W'.<gallery caption= widths="350px" heights="350px" perrow="2">[[File:0077-Cannon-proving-bank.jpg|350px|thumb|left|'''Cannon proving bank]]<div style="clear:both">'''. Many cannon balls have been found at the foot of the bank by metal detectors.<br /> There was an older proving bank in a nearby wood.<br /> [[File:0078-Upstream-from-boring-mill.jpg|350px|thumb|left|'''Site of the Boring Mill upstream]]<div style="clear:both">.''' There are 20 tons or so of iron borings in the stream at the Boring Mill site.<br /> In the photo: Douglas Anderson, wheelwright, and Peter Davies, retired civil servant and assistant to landowner Peter Reed.<br /> Mr Davies has a special interest in muzzle loading guns such as Brown Bess.<br /gallery>
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File:0075-Furnace-House-Waldern.jpg|'''Furnace Farm, Waldron.''' This was the site of Hanson's Foundry and Furnace. Gun trunnions were marked with a 'W'.File:0076-Large-furnace-pond.jpg|'''Large furnace pond in front of the house'''
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Most landowners, particularly the Fullers, had interests in iron founding and they managed their woodland as coppice to produce the enormous amounts of charcoal needed for the blast furnaces. It has been estimated that between four and five thousand acres of coppice was needed to keep each forge and furnace combination in continuous use.<br />
*Ms Zoe Edwards - Information and Local Studies Librarian, Hastings Library.
*Mr Peter Reed, Farmer and owner of the site of the Fullers furnace and foundry.
*Mr Peter Davies, Assistant - special interest - smooth bore muzzle-loading smallarmssmall arms.
*Mr Douglas Andrews - Wheelwright<br />
