Curious as to how much meteroic iron could be salvaged and then worked by these pre modern societies. I think the Egyptians had a few iron artifacts that were conclusively from meteorite iron.
While not Fennoscandia, there is the 3000 year old Kaali crater in Estonia, ie during the stone age, a thousand of year earlier than what this article is about. There would have been iron available from it, and there were settlements afterwards around the crater.
For those who'd like to see similar techniques in action, a popular Youtuber recently made an iron arrowhead using iron age(?) metallurgical techniques [0].
He gathers water containing iron-oxidizing bacteria, he extracts the ore using a sieve, he then smelts the ore with a handmade blast furnace and charcoal he made himself. He then separates prills from the slag and forges them into a knife with a clay mold and said blast furnace. After all that, he has the worlds worst and knife.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadSome believe that the chunk of iron that Achilles offered as a prize in the Iliad was of meteoric origin.
He gathers water containing iron-oxidizing bacteria, he extracts the ore using a sieve, he then smelts the ore with a handmade blast furnace and charcoal he made himself. He then separates prills from the slag and forges them into a knife with a clay mold and said blast furnace. After all that, he has the worlds worst and knife.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o