Hopewell Iron Tools 400bc-400ad

[Zakuska]

Hmmm... Quite a lot of Hopewell Iron tools are known. While not "Smellted" they where heated and beaten into shape.

1. Copper earspools, one outer plate of which is plated with meteoric iron.

(Hopewell, Marriott 1).

2. Copper earspools, one side of which is covered with silver, the other with

copper, while the body is made of meteoric iron. (Hopewell).

3. Copper earspools, both outer plates of which are covered with meteoric-iron

overlay. (Hopewell, Harness, Fort Ancient, Turner, Porter).

4. Earspools made entirely of meteoric iron. (Porter, Turner).

5. Awls made of meteoric iron. (Seip 1, Hopewell).

6. Cylindrical beads of rolled meteoric-iron sheeting. (Seip 1, Turner,

Mound City).

7. Beads made of small marine shells covered with copper sheeting which

in turn is covered with meteoric iron. (Mound City).

8. Hemispherical clay, wood, or sandstone buttons covered with meteoric-iron

sheeting. (Hopewell, Seip 1, Mound City).

9. Buttons consisting of small hemispheres covered with meteoric iron and

set in sheet-copper settings. (Harness).

10. So-called "ceremonial" solid, rounded cones of meteoric iron. (Hopewell).

11. Fragments of meteoric-iron sheeting suggestive of plain headdresses

similar to the classic Hopewell copper "helmets." (Turner, Hopewell).

12. Triple conjoined tubes or pan-pipes made of meteoric iron. (Turner).

13. Axe made of meteoric iron. (Harness).

14. Adze made of meteoric iron. (Hopewell).

15. Small straight-sided chisel made of meteoric iron. (Hopewell).

16. Curved chisels of meteoric iron imitating beaver incisors in shape.

(Hopewell).

17. Small meteoric-iron drill stuck in a pearl bead which it was used to

perforate. (Hopewell).

18. Small boat-shaped hollow objects of meteoric iron. (Seip 1).

19. Small disc-shaped sheets of meteoric iron. (Harness).

20. Slate cone plated with meteoric-iron foil. (Tremper).

21. Human ulna banded and partly covered with meteoric-iron sheeting.

(Hopewell).

22. Ball of meteoric iron set into hollowed bear canine tooth. (Seip 2).

23. "Nuggets" of meteoric iron. (Turner, Campbell, Hopewell, Marietta).

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/48.../V61N06_341.pdf

Hopewell metal Furnaces.

[LifeOnaPlate]

Hey you're alive!

[Zakuska]

Yeah been catching up on some projects.

[katherine the great]

Yeah been catching up on some projects.

Fashioning some meteoric iron projects on the side?