Iron Bloom from the defunct medieval village of Polom (district of Blansko)

The site of the former medieval village of Polom is situated in the margin of an old ironworking district in the centre of Moravian Karst. The only mention about Polom as a living village comes from 1432 (later documents from 1526, 1548, 1560 and 1597 already mention the village as a desolated one). According to the ceramic material (surface prospecting) we can suppose the village existed from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Its extinction is most likely associated with the year-long siege of the neighbouring New Castle during the war between kings Jiři of Poděbrady and Matthias Corvinus. It seems, according to the geography of the surrounding areas, that Polom was an agricultural village. However, recently an iron bloom was unlawfully excavated in the site