Woodford furnace festival 2020 Iron smelting from Irish bog ore in the replica of Przeworsk culture slag pit furnace. We used 33 kg of the non-roasted ore and got 8.5 kg soft iron.
I really like watching these old metal processes. It’s really interesting to see how it was done in different parts of the world that have different natural resources.
And homogenized while in the coal bed. Also intriguing. I'm very curious how that affects the molecular structure of the resulting steel. Scottish claymores do enjoy a reputation for having been unusually hard metal. Could be why
Not gonna lie, I got mallet envy watching this video. You should do a video on charcoal making though, such a huge part of the process. Do you roast the ore before smelting?
This is reconstruction of the ancient slag pit furnace, slag tapping is not necessary, below the shaft is pit in the ground and there slag flow creating a slag block.
@@officinaferrariainteresting! I read that slag is less dense than iron though, so why is it the slag ends up in the pit, while the bloom sits on top?
@@Archris17 In this process temperature inside the furnace is less than iron melting point, iron bloom is solid. Slag is liquid and goes down to the pit. Iron bloom from in front of the blowing hole and ussualy stay there during process.
Im an iron ore geologist, love your channel and hope to imitate your works in the future. Please re-edit this video to exclude the opening drone shot. It adds nothing to the video and is technologically anachronistic from what you're trying to illustrate.
