Calenick

Calenick (Cornish: Klunyek)[1] is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kea, about a mile south of Truro in Cornwall, England, UK.

Circa 1702 The Newham Works opened (and were technically the first incarnation of Calenick, employing the first reverberatory furnace technology in Cornwall’s tin smelting industry).

They required a source of water-power (waterwheels) to run the stamps used to crush the slag for re-smelting.

Small ‘Calenick Crucibles‘ were manufactured in order to ‘assay’ or test the quantity of metal within the crushed ore.

The crucibles resembled small china plant pots and were sold in nests like Russian dolls, exported as far as Australia and to other burgeoning tin mining economies.