Brian Awty

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Tapping and blowing arches in adjacent sides are features which the Lapphyttan furnace in Sweden has in common with Walloon furnaces. Swedish influences perhaps predominated in Namur, where German immigrants produced steel rather than iron. Such influences arose because King Mugnus Eriksson and Count Willem I of Namur were brothers-in-law, a specific instance being the charter granted by Willem I to the ironworkers of Marche. Other contacts were the export of a large proportion of Swedish iron to Bruges via Sluys, then a lordship of the count of Namur. Further technological transfer is speculated upon.

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Were there medieval ironworking contacts between Sweden and Namur?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 28(1), 7-10. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/469
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Were there medieval ironworking contacts between Sweden and Namur?. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 28(1), 7-10. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/469