A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
Very early type of Furnace for reducing Iron Ore directly into Wrought Iron. Product was of poor quality as it was never molten. Slag was generally removed by hammering, but some was inevitably left behind and trapped within the product. Superseded by Finery and Chafery Process Description of the Bloomery Process
The process of working iron with hammers
a furnace in which iron ore is smelted and from which metallic iron is produced
An early hearth for smelting haematite to produce iron.
primitive predecessor of the blast furnace: an open hearth, bellows blown, producing blooms of wrought iron from ore and charcoal.
Iron bloomeries were places where iron was smelted before the invention of the blast furnace. Impurities were removed from the iron ore, leaving iron 'bloom' behind.
The most basic way of reducing ore to metal, a high temperature hearth that produces a small lump of metal called a bloom.
A factory that makes puddled iron into blooms. See bloom, puddled iron.
A bloomery is a type of furnace once widely used for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. A bloomery's product is a porous mass of iron and slag called a bloom.