Bowl Furnace Iron Smelting

In late October, 2024 Irish archeologist Brian G. Scott flew to my humble home here in Vermont and we commenced four days of iron smelting. This focus of our endeavor was reconstructing and testing the viability of a furnace constructed and documented by Michael O’Kelly in Ireland in the 1950’s. Although there is a small […]

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