I seem to remember a Jane Yolen story in her Merlin's Booke about a group of female smiths whose central mystery is the smelting of iron--maybe from meteorites? I definitely remember the pun on "Excellent Calibre". The copyright of the book is 1986, but the story may be earlier.
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Date: 2011-05-27 02:02 pm (UTC)