EXPERIMENTAL BLOOMERY IRONMAKING
in the Weald of Southern England in the 21st Century

REFERENCES

(1) Influence of the Ore Smelting course on the slag microstructures at Early Ironmaking, usable as Identification Basis for the Furnace Process Employed, Stig Blomgren & Erik Tholander, Scan. Journ. Metallurgy 15 (1986) p151-160

(2) Constitution of Bloomery Slags Part 1: Roman,
GR Morton & J Wingrove, Journal of the Iron & Steel Inst, Dec 1969, p1556 - 1564

(3) Constitution of Bloomery Slags Part 2: Medieval,
GR Morton & J Wingrove. Journal of the Iron & Steel Inst, Jul 1972, p478 - 488

OTHER READING

The Experimental Production of Prehistoric Bar Iron,
Peter Crew, Historical Metallurgy, Vol 25 No 1, 1991, p21-36

Ironmaking in a Roman Furnace', Henry Cleere,
Britannia, Vol II, 1971, p203 - 222
(Similar paper in The Iron & Steel Institute' Feb 1970)

The Mechanism of the Bloomery Process in Shaft Furnaces, R F Tylecote, J N Austin & A E Wraith, Journ Iron & Steel Inst, May 1971, p342 - 363

Metallurgy - Iron & Steel, Percy, 1864
'Direct Extraction of iron in the malleable state from ore', p254 - 279

Cylindrical shaft furnaces of the early Wealden Iron Industry C 100BC to AD300,
J Gibson-Hill, Hist Metallurgy, 1980, p21 - 27

The examination of two samples of bloomery iron,
G T Brown, Jour Hist Met Soc, Vol 5 No 1, 1971, p29-32

Practical Treatise on the smelting and Smithing of Bloomery Iron, W H Lee Sauder & H G Williams III (Submitted to Jour Hist Met Soc 2002).

WEB SITES

Experimental Bloomery at St Fagans, Cardiff - Tim Young

INAGINA - Video of operation of a bloomery in Mali in the 1990s by the Dogon tribe

'The Smelters Art' - Rockbridge Bloomery, Lee Sauders & Skip Williams
(good site for links elsewhere)