The Iron Age

Haematite

Description:

Three pieces of botryoidal haematite. This is a form of iron ore, and is the raw material as dug out of the ground.

 

In order to make iron the ore must be melted down in a smelting furnace, where the unwanted impurities would be removed.

 

Source:

Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura

Accession number:

3 Metallic Fragments (No A/N)

Digital Number:

RPD0358