[TheForge] Re: Opportunity

[Mike Spencer]

DonP> Anyone know what  shingled iron is?

In Ironworks on the Saugus [1] there's mention of "shingling the
loop".  It's the first step after removing the hot mass of iron from
the finery: sledge hammering it on an iron plate to "consolidate it
and remove surface charcoal" before (or possibly including) taking it
to the big helve hammer to be forged into a "bloom".  There's a
footnote referencing some obscure Massachusetts court documents.

There's also an explanation of the terms "anchony" and "mocket head"
but nothing about the etymology of the words.

- Mike


[1] Ironworks on the Saugus, E.N. Hartley, U.Olkahoma Press, 1957,
    p. 178

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