New study finds meteoric iron in early Iron Age artifacts in Poland

[Still Waters]

A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

According to Dr. Jambon, the study was prompted by the desire to know the origin of iron smelting. "The point of my research is to find out who, when, and where the iron smelting was discovered. To that end, we need to analyze archaeological irons and check whether they are meteoritic or smelted."

To do this, two Early Iron Age cemeteries and their iron artifacts, Częstochowa-Raków and Częstochowa-Mirów, both located in southern Poland, were analyzed.

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-meteoric-iron-early-age-artifacts.html

[Piney]

They switched to iron because trade networks collapsed and meteoric iron is easy to work and laying around the Baltic. 

High quality bronze was actually stronger than iron.

 

 

[Abramelin]

23 minutes ago, Piney said:

They switched to iron because trade networks collapsed and meteoric iron is easy to work and laying around the Baltic. 

High quality bronze was actually stronger than iron.

 

 

You can wonder whether the bolid creating the Kaali Crater (Estonia) was part of a swarm. Some of that swarm may have impacted in Poland, and found centuries later.

Edited February 17 by Abramelin

[Piney]

8 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

You can wonder whether the bolid creating the Kaali Crater (Estonia) was part of a swarm. Some of that swarm may have impacted in Poland, and found centuries later.

That's what it was. But more of a breakup than swarm.

Good lookin! 🤙

[Abramelin]

11 minutes ago, Piney said:

That's what it was. But more of a breakup than swarm.

Good lookin! 🤙

Yep. A larger body breaking up, creating a swarm of impactors.

[Piney]

3 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Yep. A larger body breaking up, creating a swarm of impactors.

Or a bollide shattering to pieces on impact creating a strewnfield. 

Which is what I was about. 

The Chesapeake Bay strewnfield crosses Texas.