Ancient Metalworkers of Hungary

Teammembers:

Béla Török

András Fehér

István Papp

Adam Thiele

László Bartha

Thomas Adrian

Christoph Schmidt

Furnace:

Traditional Hungarian furnace, so-called “fajszi-type”.1100-1200 AC

Experiments

We will try to show, how the iron was made in the 10-12th century in Hungary. Our metallurgy will be fully authentic; we will use the same iron ore and the same technology (for example hand bellows) like the ancient ones. Our team would like to present the whole spectrum of the technology: iron ore roasting, furnace building, iron smelting and iron bloom processing.