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Artefact in Smithy

Detail of cast iron artefact visible in picture above.

Purpose unknown. Possibly formed by casting the body around a wrought-iron forging. The elongated parts of the forks visible in the picture may have been threaded.

It is possible that it was a weight on the compression arm of the air reservoir section of the smithy bellows, secured to the arm by straps across the tops of the forks retained by nuts.

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