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OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND—The Oxford Mail reports that a 2,700-year-old blacksmith shop has been discovered in an Iron Age settlement site complete with roundhouses, an Iron Age pantry, ceremonial ...
The blacksmith’s workshop—or “smithy”—was found during a dig in Oxfordshire by the excavation company DigVentures. Radiocarbon dating suggests it was likely active between 770 and 515 B.C.E., near the ...
A STROUD exhibition is celebrating the legacy of a renowned artist-blacksmith. The Museum in the Park is hosting Earth Fire Iron: Alan Evans and the New Iron Age, from Saturday, September 6 to Sunday, ...
Analysis of cauldrons nearly two and a half millennia-old has allowed archaeologists to create a near-perfect replica, ...
Visitors to Derby Days Aug. 7-9 will have the opportunity, thanks to the Lewisburg Historical Society, to learn about the work of a blacksmith at the H.E. Singer blacksmith shop, located at 115 E.
Archaeologists were excavating a site in the Scottish Highlands when they stumbled upon a large metal artifact. At first, they thought it was just a piece of old farm equipment. But when they took a ...
By 1839, the company became the Albany Iron Works and wrought iron was first made there. A steam works was added as well as a water mill, forge, machine and blacksmith shop, spike, bolts and rivet ...
Other insights included the revelation Iron Age craftsmen were capable of using techniques like mercury gilding and "we didn't know they could do this in Britain 2,000 years ago", she said.
At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
By 1839, the company became the Albany Iron Works and wrought iron was first made there. A steam works was added as well as a water mill, forge, machine and blacksmith shop, spike, bolts and rivet ...