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Making Iron The Old-Fashioned Way Is A Tricky Business

It's one thing to imagine how an ancient technology worked and quite another to actually get your hands dirty trying it. That's the whole idea behind "experimental archaeology" and the experiments Dan ...
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE BEGINNING OF BLAST FURNACE-TECHNOLOGY IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Synopsis: In the last 4 years the project "Iron and Steel Production in the Märkische Sauerland. A Process of Production from the Bloomery Furnace to the Early Osemundfinery." has excavated 3 blast ...
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The archaeometallurgy of iron : recent developments in archaeological and scientific research / edited by Jiří Hošek, Henry Cleere and L̕ubomír Mihok

"Dedicated to Professor Radomír Pleiner." "Within this volume, several authors from both western and eastern Europe introduces in eighteen contributions recent and/or summarizing results of ...
University of Sheffield

Bog Iron Smelt

UG student Rich Moran has conducted an experimental smelt to assess if bog iron can be smelted in a bloomery furnace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y77xuu9kULw ...
heraldscotland

Furnace discovered in Trossachs could date back to the Iron Age

The remains of an iron furnace that may date back to the start of the Iron Age have been uncovered during work to prepare an upland glen for tree planting. A raised platform for burning charcoal and a ...