OF MAN AND IRON

For over two thousend years, the iron industry of Bergslagen has thrived, the knowledge o fits workforce having been handed down from generation to generation. There are treces of early iron production sites, lika Röda Jorden, dating from 700 BC. There are impressive ruins of recently abandoned iro [...]
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For over two thousend years, the iron industry of Bergslagen has thrived, the knowledge o fits workforce having been handed down from generation to generation. There are treces of early iron production sites, lika Röda Jorden, dating from 700 BC. There are impressive ruins of recently abandoned ironworks, lika Högfors works outside Norberg. The work around the iron ore, the mines, the blast furnaces and forges, has created a local identity. The ming farmers had a farm and a mine, and part of a blast furnace. Producing pi giron was profitable and the mining farms grew. Bar iron forging at the ironworks was a well developed craft, the process is demonstrated in Karmansbo's Lancashire forge. In the tilthammer, the bar iron was stretched by hand, by skilled workers. This can be seen in the village of Gravendal. The cultural heritage is managed with pride. In Ecomuseum Bergslagen everything is where it always has been. The landscape and the people are Ecomuseum.