Green Velo

Ancient iron smelting furnaces situated on the edge of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains will soon be smoking  again.

Thanks to contemporary metalworkers, at the furnace ground of two thousand years ago, unique on a European scale, participants in the archaeological festival will have an opportunity to witness a reconstruction of a full cycle of iron ore smelting with the use of Iron Age methods. The show features ore and charcoal exploitation and preparation, building ground furnaces (known as dymarki), iron smelting in shaft furnaces, to casting tools and ornaments. The presentations will be accompanied by scholarly commentary by archaeologists from Kielce, Krakow, Warsaw and Lublin.