The Dismantling of a Smelting Furnace After Experimental Smelting of Iron Ore

Tajana Sekelj Ivančan

Archeologia technica, vol. 30 (2019)
Pages: 10–16
Language: English
Type of article: scientific article
DOI: n/a

Abstract:
In 2017, members of the TransFER project team participated in the ninth workshop of techniques of smelting iron ore held in Stará huť at Adamov near Brno in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the workshop, the focus was on education about all the stages of obtaining iron from ore and on active participation in the entire process of smelting in the furnace. In the second part, on the initiative of members of the TransFER project the smelting furnace in which the smelting experiments had previously been carried out was disassembled. In the investigations, which simulated archeological excavation, the aim was to define and recognize all the layers of its construction and repairs, and to compare the obtained results with situations at archaeological sites in Podravina, Croatia.