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In addition to its use in the garden or as art, wrought iron can be employed in more functional roles, such as building items like shelving units or brackets. These can add both utility and a rustic or industrial aesthetic to your home environment.

To give you an idea of how unreliable iron is, Bronze Age civilizations actually knew about iron. Iron is actually the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust. It was just that iron was so prone to breaking that Bronze Age civilizations preferred bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, two much less common elements. The ancient Greeks would sail to Britain—literally going to England in a rowboat—to get the tin.