repaired bowl furnace

The Lisnacrogher Sword

We had success smelting in the bowl furnace in 2024 when Brian Scott, Nick Tomlin, and I convened for a week of experimentation. We were able to smelt ore and successively remelt it to make a bar of sufficient quality to forge a replica iron age sickle. The question now was: could we repeat the […]

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