How to find iron without mining [Medieval Professions: Bog Iron Hunter]

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This video takes a look at the unusual profession of the bog iron hunter. As well as how iron ore forms in a bog and how to find it.

Music by Vindsvept (Lake of Light)
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CC BY 4.0 License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Links to pictures and credits (in order of appearance):

Hands-on-bog-iron
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hands-on-bog-ir…

List of proffessions:
arcana.wikidot.com/list-of-medieval-european-pr…

Blanket peat bog, Feadan Leitir
geograph.org.uk/photo/1252855

Iron bearing water in a spring
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_bearing_water_i…

Limonite nodules found at Beeston Heath
northfolk.org.uk/geology/ironworkings.html

Excavation of bog iron in Wierzchy
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOs810_WG_14_20…

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MOs810_WG_14_20…

Bog below Cnocan Conachreag, Caithness
geograph.org.uk/photo/4948468

Bog oil
geograph.org.uk/photo/515790

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bog_oil_-_geogr…

Smelting Iron
pxhere.com/en/photo/1101478

Pickaxe
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pickaxe.jpg

ARG-2016-Aerial-Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia)–Valle Carbajal
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ARG-2016-Aerial…

Orthosilicate-2D-dimensions
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orthosilicate-2…

Sword
pxhere.com/en/photo/1091249

Bog grass and water: Whixall Moss
geograph.org.uk/photo/762754

Goethite
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethite-169735…

Magnetite
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnetite-11873…

Vugs
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vug_5614.JPG

Quartz
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quartz-Magnesio…

Water Spring
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_Spring.jpg

Nature Travel River Creek Forest Water Spring
maxpixel.net/Nature-Travel-River-Creek-Forest-W…

Creek flowing through the bog landscape
goodfreephotos.com/canada/ontario/algonquin-pro…

Iron bacteria in runoff
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_bacteria_i…

Limonite bog iron cm02
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limonite_bog_ir…

Leptothrix discophora oil film
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leptothrix_disc…