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Jens Nordlunde · 8th February 2005, 04:31 PM

Export of iron/wootz from Sri Lanka and India has been well known and documented; going back for more than two thousand years, some even say twenty five hundred years.
Does anyone know if there also was an export of iron from places like Sumatra and Indonesia?
If yes, where to?

8th February 2005, 04:31 PM	#1
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Export of iron from SE Asia Export of iron/wootz from Sri Lanka and India has been well known and documented; going back for more than two thousand years, some even say twenty five hundred years. Does anyone know if there also was an export of iron from places like Sumatra and Indonesia? If yes, where to?