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Meir Heath Ex Foundry Artifacts

Artifacts recovered from Foundry Slag

Possible furnace door handle

Image: Possible furnace door handle

Possible ink pot C1890 found under slag

Image: ink pot

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Piece of furnace slag showing small pieces of coal and cast iron

Image: End of Raddle or stiring rod, (melted of in furnace)

End of long wrought iron rod, called a raddle.
The hooked end being preserved from the molten
metal in the furnace by being dipped into a water
filled trough when necessary,
untill it was melted away from the main rod.

The pieces of cannel coal have been verified as
matching the samples from the Black Lake Site.

Image: Foundry

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