Note 367 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.

See chap. xiii. Dr. Evans (Bronze, 275) says, ‘How far their process of burying iron until part of it had rusted away would, in the case of charcoal iron, leave the remaining portion more of the nature of steel, I am unable to say.’ It will appear that this burying is often spoken of; I have never seen it practised.