Thanks for that site, Dai. Very absorbing, though tantalising.( I'll put our Y3 teachers onto it.) References to the food being good, but no recipes. References to traces of the music, but no details of the examples quoted. Nothing on the iron, though. The guy writing the book had a very cunning way out of whatever controversy exists on the subject. His smith didn't use an iron meteorite, but an iron-rich stone. As he carefully does not describe its appearance, but it does not seem to be a pallasite which has visible iron, it seems to have been a chondrite, with 25% iron, 17% magnesium. Whether this makes a good blade, or is even smeltable at Roman achievable temperatures I haven't the faintest idea. (He uses a mixture of charcoal and coal - I thought the sulphur was a problem with that.)

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