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Iron Smelting Experiment - 2004


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Kevin breaks up the raw clay. As dug, the material is very inconsistant, even after a long while soaking. A combination of pounding the lumps, then rolling and mixing the mass was used. This proves the most labour intensive part of the entire process.

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Text © Darrell Markewitz, 2017
Photographs © Karen Peterson, 2017

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