Titel: Ironworks, Starby
Skrivet av: John Bentley skrivet 2013-05-13, 10:26
A last word. My interpretation is that we have a farm named in the 1600s when iron was produced in the neighbourhood, so itself a likely site of a furnace sometime in those years.
And about the scale of production. I raised my eyebrows at the large (stor) blast furnace and large scale of production referred to in the reference. This is surely relative, and in this region could never have involved the large hyttor of Bergslagen. Purely that it was lake and bog ore that was available, small lumps of ore painstakingly raked out of bogs and recovered from lake bottoms. A very limited supply. So rather small scale, a seasonal occupation in a farming region ?