Iron in Ancient India c7.s1.3

c7.s1.3

Sir Robert Hadfield has published analyses of a number of specimens of Ceylonese iron of the fifth century A.D. in the Proceedings of the Royal Society and Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute.¹ As Ceylon might be regarded to be a part of Greater India in ancient times, analyses of Ceylon iron of the fifth century would be of interest in connection with Indian iron.² We give below the analyses of an iron nail, a chisel and a bill-hook.