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 The
medieval blacksmith did not beat iron as most modern blacksmiths do now.
Medieval smiths forged their iron and wrought it from a non uniform bloom of
iron to forcefully produce a final product accurate to the customers design and
pleasing in appearance.
The smiths only tools were hammer and anvil, fire, bellows, tongs, hand
shear, punches, chisels and cutters, and a small assortment of crude hand held
iron tools and objects.
 Anvilmaking
as an industry was first stated at the Mousehole Forge, Sheffield England. Over
200 years anvils have been made for the trade at the Mousehole Forge, which for
two centuries at least, was the only works of its kind in the world.
"And yonder stands old Mousehole Forge
In Dingy honours dres't,
Famed in the days of good King George
For Anvils, England's best" Medieval blacksmiths in the cities were highly
valued as their wares were needed in virtually every household from a serf?s up
to a grand king?s
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