The Smelter's Links
Iron Related sites
Finland
jouni jäppinen - Struka Iron Smelting 2004
MÖHKÖN RAUTAA JÄRVIMALMISTAl'europe
Expérimentation d'un bas fourneau
Järnframställning 2004
EXPERIMENTAL BLOOMERY IRONMAKING in the Weald of Southern England in the 21st Century
The medium is the root of the art - Walfrid Huber
Experimental work based in the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans (GeoArch)
The Seax: A study in Archaeo-Metalsmithing - Jonathan A. Loose
La sidrurgie antique dans la Montagne Noire
Experimental Iron Smelting at Rievaulx Abbey
WHITEHALL FARM ROMAN VILLA AND LANDSCAPE PROJECT
Ancient Metallurgy Research Group - Smelting, Casting Smithing - University of Bradford
The Experimental reproduction of Iron Age and Romano-British Iron smelting (Crew's great work)
Early Ironworking in Europe, archaeology and experiment. Plas Tan y Bwlch 1997
K-G Lindblad Jrnframstllning 2001
Experimental Bloomery Iron making in Tranemo.
Experimental Iron Smelting at Scatness
Projekt "Rennofen"
Blumentopfhochofen -Projekte zur chem. Technologie - Schulversuche
Verhttung von Raseneisenerz im Rennofen - Alfred Bullermann
Eisengewinnung aus Erz / Heinz Mittel (Meier Helmut)
Rennofen-Projekt WS 1999/2000 Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Nya Lapphyttan Trial to Produce Iron
The MAN, IRON, CLAY AND FIRE/Author: Jean-Claude LEBLANC
Athanor enqute archologique autour de l'ge du fer
Ancient Carburization of Iron to Steel
Africa - Videos
Inagina - The Dogon Blacksmiths
Ovambo Smelting Video
The Tree of Iron
The Blooms of Banjeli - Technology and Gender in West African Iron Making
Dokwaza: last of the african iron mastersAsia
Tatara Iron-making Technique
Blast furnace operation in Song-Yuan China' (that's ca. AD 960-1368)
United States
Michael McCarthy Farmers' Museum
Dan Schneid - Experimental Bloomery, Dan produced a nice bloom on his first try!
South Kent School - Blast Furnace
Making Steel in the Forge by Louis Mills
Having a Blast: Smelting Iron Ore by Andy LoewyNorse Iron
Darrell Markewitz - The Dark Ages Re-creation Company
The Hls Archaeology Project 2000
Hurstwic Bog Iron Production in the Norse Era contains a picture of currency bars
C O P E N H A G E N U N I V E R S I T Y - ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES
The Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark
Charcoal
Charcoal furnace designs
ART
Tom Joyce - Blacksmith art in africa
Lee Sauder - Sculptures in natural iron
Artist Blacksmith Association of North America - ABANA
Darell Markewitz - The Wareham Forge - Norse Influence
Archaeology sites & sources
Oude techniek en werktuigbouw, industriële geschiedenis en archeologie
Slag and Metallurgy for Historical Archaeologists
The Historical Metallurgy Society
Assemblage - Scheffield Graduate Journal of Archaeology
Arch-Metals Archaeo-Metallurgical Bibliography (listserve)
Joseph Needham home page
AIA Industrial Archaeology Review
More fun stuff from Don Wagner
Study of Archeometallurgic slags as analog of vitrified wastes C. Mahe-Le Carlier and A. Ploquin
New Roxbury Ironworks Site
University of Oxford
Universitt Mainz
Jrnframstllning Hammarede
Archaemetallurgy
Le Portail de l'Archologie
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