This is a rare and original 18 C. steel ingot from India, made of wootz and coming right out of the crucible ready to be traded and forged into a wootz blade. Luckily it survived and is up for sale. 2 ¼ inches in diameter, 2 inch high, in a ball shape and about 870 Grams weight. A small area on the side was polished and etched to show the wootz structure. Other similar Wootz cakes in weights of 300 - 800 Grams are also available. Unique piece for the weapon collector, steel researcher or blade smith expert. (We should mentioned here some comments we received that this is an old mill ball used to crush ores and not an wootz ingot. This is now being checked)