Component
Iron fittings
Iron ore → Iron bloom → Wrought iron → Iron fittings → Harness
Picture to come.
Small forged ironwork used to strengthen and join wood: nails, hinges, straps, rings, staples and similar parts. Smiths made them from bar iron with hammers, punches and drifts, and excavated English smithies have produced part-finished examples. Such fittings were needed for doors, carts, harness, mills and much else in medieval life.
Sources: medievalists.net · historicengland.org.uk
Made by
- Forge iron fittings
Used to make
- Make harness
- Build an ox cart
Used to build
- Watermill
- Powder mill
- Blowing house