Old Photograph Blacksmith Abernyte Scotland

Old photograph of the Blacksmith in Abernyte, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish village is located two miles North West of the former Inchture railway station, and around seven miles West of Dundee. Blacksmithing began with the Iron Age, when primitive man first began making tools from iron. The Iron Age began when some primitive person noticed that a certain type of rock yielded iron when heated by the coals of a very hot campfire. In short, we can say that blacksmithing, the art of crafting that crude metal into a useable implement, has been around for a long, long time.





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