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From the Iron age up to the 19th century in Europe fire was produced with flint and steel, so in the medieval period this would have been the common means of starting a fire:
- take a flake of flint large enough to hold comfortably in the fingers of one hand.
- take a piece of mild steel shaped so it can be held while exposing a long, straight edge. Mild steel is simply iron with charcoal added when heated in the forge, not like modern stainless steel.
- take some easily combustible material such as char-cloth or dried fungus to use as tinder.
- have small pieces of kindling ready at hand.
- strike the flint against the steel, or the steel against the flint (the difference is only in the direction the sparks will fly)
- direct sparks on to the tinder; char-cloth with catch fire from just a single tiny spark.
- allow the cloth to burn into a flame, then place dry kindling, dry grass etc. over it.
- as the kindling catches fire add larger pieces of wood and you have your fire for cooking or heating.
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