Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Wooden Tops 36. Yew

Yew is very toxic, needing to be carefully treated. Traditionally, yew wood was used in turnery as well as to make long bows and tool handles. Some of the oldest, surviving wooden artefacts, were made of this wood.

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Copper-bottomed Enterprises

  Early in the Industrial Revolution, Swansea was known as 'Copperopolis'. Much of the smelting of the world's copper took place...