Fuel
Charcoal
Charcoal → Iron bloom → Wrought iron → Axe
Picture to come.
Wood slowly burnt with little air, usually in stacks covered with earth or turf, leaving a light black fuel that burns hot and clean. It was the only fuel used in bloomery furnaces to smelt iron, and was also used by smiths and other metalworkers. Charcoal burning drew heavily on coppiced woodland, and charcoal-burners were called colliers.
Sources: historicengland.org.uk · blog.metmuseum.org
Made by
- Charcoal burn
Used to make
- Boil brine
- Smelt a bloom
- Fire pottery
- Fire bricks
- Fire tiles
- Burn lime
- Render tallow
- Bake
- Malt and brew
- Brew (alehouse, half batch)
- Boil pitch
- Smelt a bloom from dressed ore
- Smelt tin in a peat hearth
- Fire glazed pottery
- Smelt lead at the ore hearth
- Smelt lead from dressed ore at the ore hearth
- Cupel lead for its silver
- Blow tin
- Smelt litharge back to lead at the bole
- Smelt litharge back to lead at the ore hearth