This beautiful Charleston gate on King Street is made from wrought iron -- meaning that each piece was individually heated and then bent by hand (most often hammered over an anvil). Most of the decorative ironwork in Charleston was made this way, as opposed to cast iron where molten metal is poured into a mold, and each piece is identical.

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This beautiful Charleston gate on King Street is made from wrought iron — meaning that each piece was individually heated and then bent by hand (most often hammered over an anvil). Most of the decorative ironwork in Charleston was made this way, as opposed to cast iron where molten metal is poured into a mold, and each piece is identical.