Chafery
A chafery is a variety of hearth used in ironmaking for reheating a bloom of iron, in the course of its being drawn out into a bar of wrought iron.
The equivalent term for a bloomery was string hearth, except in 17th century Cumbria, where the terminology was that of the finery forge.
A finery forge for the Walloon process would typically have one chafery to work two fineries.
Chaferies were also used in the potting and stamping forges of the industrial revolution.
