ANCIENT FOREST INDUSTRY
. Charcoal-burning has been an industry of the New Forest for over a thousand years, but the famfites plying the ancient trade hgve gradually died out, and now Mr Fred Maurice ; Cull, the descendant of a long line, olaims to be the last still actively engaged. ;• Mr Cull says he is the only charooalburner in Britain who bums exactly as they did in William the Conqueror’s days. The knowledge and skill have been handed down from father to son arid cannot he tought. The burning is done in a-, shallow pit,- 10 yards m diameter, the wood being cut, and piled into small stacks, each about four feet long. \ Hie logs are stacked, together in a cdrole, leaning forward, and covered with bracken, tufts of grass, and Utter. The pile is then eeb alight from. the top, a piece of lighted .riood being thrust 'into the centre. The skill lies in producing charcoal without breaking it into pieces.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 9
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