Greenland Iron Age

[Tim Simmons]

I would love to visit. Perhaps one day. I wonder how much of this material was used. It looks worked. How pure and useful could the iron be made. What about trade. What about the North American Arctic? Did the Greenland Norse trade iron? All questions which are not answered. We know metal was worked in North America before European American expansion.

[fearn]

According to the volunteer standing by the York Meteorite, the ground around the meteorites was littered with hammerstones from Inuit knocking bits off.

The picture below is from the Old Woman, one of the York Meteorite fragments. The volunteer said this was one where they pounded off fragments, and one can almost believe it, looking at the bright edge there.

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[Tim Simmons]

Fantastic. We need more.

[Jens Nordlunde]

Try here http://geologi.snm.ku.dk/english/ or maybe if you write to them they will tell more.
Jens