Making Iron.
Old clay kiln with iron inclusions
This shows how the kiln melts during use
New kiln in its making
This time with granite smelt chamber
My lovely daughter Tina Aviaja
The construction is discussed
Breaktime
More break
Bog ore ready to be roasted
Ready to fire
Harald tend to the fire
Good even fire is best
3 lovely Viking girls
Constructing kiln
My wonderful son Christian Peder (who took most of these photos)
Kiln foundation of flat stones
Work supervised by the old guy
Iron Tuyere inserted
Workers looking at their kiln
Work details
Work details
Sindre and Harald
Stone chamber almost finished
Still building
Still building
Still building
Now on to the clay top of the kiln
Sindre and Martin
Clay top started
more work
and work
and clay
and clay
Kiln completed
Kiln show how its built in "bricks" of clay
The Smithy at Fyrkat
Fyrkat 2007
The smelt about to be started
Fire made by flint and steel
Tinder is damp-second attempt
Fire and pre-heating the kiln
Hauk at the bellows
Christian has a soar throat today.
just about to tap slag first time
Opening for slag tapping
Using a long iron chisel
Hole through
Fluid slag
Our wives
still smelting
second slag tapping
"Is there any iron down there you think?? "
Still smelting
Ready to open
Still hot in there
The moment every one waits for
Tra-tra-tra-traaaaa!!
And there it is!!- The iron bloom- in all its glory and hot splendor!!
Cooling off fast
Harald and Martin hammers the bloom to compress it a little while still hot
cooling off fast
and faster
water starts boiling
still cooling
The result is studied
a look down the top of Kiln- still hot
" I wonder what's the weight!
Hauk and Carina
Forging a piece of the bloom
Welding bars together of the bloom
Making Hetz in the furnace
The bloom cut through
close up- note the dense iron structure
A knife blade made by the bloom
Knife and piece of bloom
Knife and piece of bloom
Knife-blade made by Danish bog ore iron , May 28th.-2007