Tag Archives: steel
Fire striker, Italy, 2nd century AD
Fire lighting kit
Complete fire lighting kit consisting of:
– Fire striker of your choice
– A few pieces of flint
– Charred linen good for at least 50 lights
– Leather linen case with horn closure
– Leather pouch to hold the whole kit
Fire striker, Spain, 2nd century AD
Fire striker, Belgium, Iron Age
Chemical elements in ferrous metal alloys
The main element in ferrous metals is, naturally, iron, which only occurs in metallic form when bonded to other elements (unlike copper, gold and silver, which are found in nature already in metallic form).