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The established view of urban medieval iron-working in Scotland is that urban smiths depended on \nrural bloomeries for the supply of processed raw materials. This view is challenged on the basis of \nchemical/mineralogical analyses of industrial waste from several urban medieval excavations in and \naround the town of Perth. Archaeological evidence and the composition of iron-working debris in \nPerth suggests that the town smiths may not have been dependent on rural supply, but practised \nprimary extraction themselves, thus controlling all aspects of output and development in the ironworking \nindustry from perhaps as early as the 13th century. This paper is funded by Historic \nScotland and forms part of ongoing research on the Scottish Bloomeries Project.
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