Fourth Iron Smelting Camp in Hungary

Abstract

The Somogy Provincial Association for Nature Conservation (SPANC) has organized the fourth Iron Smelting Camp in Hungary between 28 July and 1 August. The accommodation was in the ‘Kund-castle’ and food was provided by SPANC. The camp was in the location of Somogyfajsz (40km south from Lake Balaton) where archaeologists have found archaeometallurgical evidence of medieval iron smelting and where a Bloomery Museum was also erected over an excavated workshop (See Figure above).

Keywords

• iron
• smelting
• conference
• bronze age
• iron age
• roman era
• early middle ages
• hungary
• review