Tool
Pick
Iron ore → Iron bloom → Wrought iron → Pick
Picture to come.
An iron-headed digging tool on a wooden handle, used by miners and quarrymen to break out rock and ore, and by labourers for digging hard ground. The iron head was forged by a smith and fixed to an ash or other hardwood haft. Picks were essential to lead and iron mining and to the busy stone quarrying of the period.
Caveats (confidence: medium)
The exact head shapes used in 12th-century England were not checked.
Sources: historicengland.org.uk
Made by
- Forge a pick
A tool for
- Dig ore
- Quarry stone