Skinskatteberg

Skinskatteberg belongs to Bergslagen, a country of forests, lakes and mineral deposits in central Sweden. Mining in the district is recorded from the fourteenth century, chiefly for iron but also for copper. Furnaces and forges depended on water power and charcoal made from the surrounding woodland. At Färna an ironworks was established in the sixteenth century, one of the enterprises that joined mining settlements to the wider Swedish trade in metal.