The Furnace at Thornton, and the Iron in the Bog

The Furnace at Thornton, and the Iron in the Bog

There is a hole in the ground outside Thornton, in West Yorkshire, and what is interesting about it is mostly what is not there. The hole is the bottom of an iron-smelting furnace from the Late Iron Age, about 2,400 years old, dug in advance of a construction project...