Footnote 14 – How Iron Technology Changed the Ancient World and Gave the Philistines a Military Edge

The “furnaces” at Tell Deir Alla have been related to the passage in 1 Samuel 13:19–22, as representing one of the places where the Israelites went down to have their metal implements repaired, but the published plans indicate that what was excavated there were pottery kilns of the channel type, best known from second millennium sites on the island of Crete.