john hyett wrote:
> For my honours thesis I am investigating a 20th C blacksmith's shop in
> the small rural community of Strathbogie in Victoria, Australia. Built
> in 1895 and worked until mid 1970's it remains as an almost intact
> example of a rural blacksmith's shop.
> I am unable to find any references to 20th C blacksmithing in the
> literature other than a paper presented to the SHA in Cincinnati in
> 1995 by M A Harmon but I have so far been unable to obtain a copy of
> this. I have, of course, J D Light's various papers on the archaeology
> of blacksmith's shops, but would be grateful if anybody could help with
> references for more modern material.
> Also of interest is the use of water cooling on the tuyere, a practice
> that seems common through the area in farm forges but rates no mention
> in any of the north american literature either archaeological or modern.
> I have found one reference to this procedure in a 1950's English text so
> presume it could be an British invention post American independance.
>
> John Hyett
> Honours
> School of Archaeology
> La Trobe University
> Bundoora, Victoria 3083
> Australia
> email [log in to unmask]
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