[Will Stelter], a promising young blacksmith working out of Montana ... He knows that if you try to forge wrought iron at too low a temperature, it develops cracks and splits.

We’ve talked about wrought iron as a difficult-to-find blacksmith’s material before here, so this immediately makes us curious as to what material the current Williamsburg gunsmiths use.

A 2,700-year-old Iron Age blacksmith workshop unearthed in the Oxfordshire countryside has been described as an "exceptionally rare" find by experts. The site was excavated at the headquarters of ...