How did blacksmiths make fences in the medieval times?
Playing an important role in society, medieval blacksmiths produced items necessary for both daily life, such as household tools, and more specialized activities, such as armor and weapons. Other professions relied on their products to complete their tasks, such as nails, picks and axels. One example of their efforts can be seen in fences built in medieval times.MaterialsMedieval blacksmiths worked with cast iron, containing too much carbon for forging and suitable only for casting items; wrought iron, containing the correct amount of carbon for forging items; and steel, iron with carbon diffused throughout the material.ToolsMedieval blacksmiths used a variety of tools, including hammers, bellows, long tongs, anvils, shears, chisels, pliers, lathes, files, grindstones and punches. They also used drawplates—tools with conical holes for thinning iron into wire.MethodsMedieval blacksmith created wrought iron by repeatedly hammering and cooling iron until the desired item took shape. The
