One of the best sites is the Tennessee Arch Net Bibliographies archive at:

http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/Pubs/Res_Bib.html

Smoke.


Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
605 West Main Street
Russellville, Arkansas 72801
(479) 968-2354  Ext. 233
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There are a bazilion resources on the web nowadays, including a number of
great bibliographies.

Just go to www.google.com and enter any of the following strings:

blacksmith archaeology
blacksmith archeology
forge excavation

try other key word searches to see what you can come up with.

I have a great report for a 19th century site outside of Syracuse in
Upstate New York that I could send the body of the text if needed.  It was
a stone shop knocked down and covered over and then had a second shop built
on top - cool!

        Dan W.



At 06:12 PM 1/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Looking for some information on 18th or early 19th cent. blacksmith shop
>sites in america.
>