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From a while ago, but I can't see it here. An intriguing story, with the workers applying lateral thinking to use the rollers used in sugar mills in an iron foundry, only to have their idea stolen and appropriated.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton
There is still so little archaeological evidence of when and where metalworking may have started. It seems to go back at least 10,000 years, but as ever, the more we excavate, the more we find, and the older the dating tends to get. Here's an example of how even comparatively recent history can be distorted and the true story unknown.
I wonder if there may be archaeological evidence of the foundry left in Jamaica, even if the machinery seems to have been shipped to England.