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For info on someone else playing with iron smelting:
Darrell Markewitz the Wareham Forge - Preparing an Iron Smelt. So far we have been lucky enough to get high grade iron ore such that we haven't had to pre-roast. There is a lot more here as well - fairly certain we cited it in the Cockatrice article.

Still snotty though moving more into throaty...
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Smelting thus takes place not only in a context of rich sexual metaphorizations; it is also surrounded by taboos imposing constraints on mixing the fertility of women with the fertility of the kilm. The blacksmith is prohibited from having sex during the smelting process. The compulsory celibacy for the smelters makes sense against the background of symbolic identification of the furnace as the wife of the smelters and the metaphoric association of smelting with sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse with "real" women is looked upon as committing adultery towards the metaphoric furnace wife.

At least this is refering to the Fipa people of Tanzania...
(Harland, R., "Technology, transformation and symbolism: Ethnographic perspectives on European Iron Working", Norwegian Archeological Review, 2004, Vol 37, No 1)

I really miss Uni journal access and subscriptions...

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