Pure aluminum can be found without reducing it yourself, but it’s very rare. You’d have to pluck it out of the interior of a volcano or the bottom of the sea- and so it seems possible that some could end up in the hands of a medieval smith, but very unlikely.
Pure aluminum can be found without reducing it yourself, but it’s very rare. You’d have to pluck it out of the interior of a volcano or the bottom of the sea- and so it seems possible that some could end up in the hands of a medieval smith, but very unlikely.
Oh, I don’t know, one would say the same thing about meteoritic iron, and yet there are well documented uses of it.
(Although apparently the Sword of Attila wasn’t really meteoritic and I got that from fiction.)