ACOUP - Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining

Continuing on with Bret’s “How Did They Make It” super series, we turn now to iron- and steel-working. In this series, Bret outlines the process and people involved in getting iron from rocks to tools, starting with the mining itself. How did mining in general work and what did iron mining in particular look like?

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