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Aspects of early metallurgy / edited by W.A. Oddy.

Contributor(s): Oddy, W. A | Historical Metallurgy Society | British Museum. Research LaboratoryMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Occasional paper (British Museum) ; no. 17.Publication details: London : British Museum, 1980. Edition: [2d ed.]Description: 192 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cmISBN: 0861590163Subject(s): Metallurgy -- History -- Congresses | Metal-work, Prehistoric -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings | HistoryLOC classification: TN615 | .A86 1980
Contents:
Summary of results of experimental work on early copper smelting / R.F. Tylecote -- Investigations on the extractive metallurgy of Cu/Sb/As Ore and excavated smelting products from Norsun-Tepe (Keban) on the upper Euphrates (3500-2800 BC) / Ulrich Zwicker -- Investigations into primitive lead smelting and its products / R. Hetherington -- The analysis of Roman tin and pewter ingots / M.J. Hughes -- The composition of Iberian Bronze Age metalwork in the British Museum / P.T. Craddock -- Bronze in the British Bronze Age / J.P. Northover -- Metallurgical investigation of the bronze crater of Derveni / G.J. Varoufakis -- Blacksmiths' tools from Waltham Abbey, Essex / W.H. Manning -- Early medieval metalworking on Helgo in central Sweden / Kristina Lamm -- Metallurgical finds from a multi-period settlement at Mucking, Essex / M.U. Jones -- Metalworking at the Mote of Mark, Kirkudbright, in the 6th-7th centuries AD / N. Swindells, Lloyd Laing -- Gilding and tinning in Anglo-Saxon England / W.A. Oddy -- Gold and silver in the Roman world / K.S. Painter -- Early metallurgy in Italy / E.R. Eaton -- Joining techniques / Janet Lang, M.J. Hughes -- Weighing of gold in prehistoric Europe / M.G. Spratling -- Metalworking at Gussage All Saints, Dorset: a review of recent work / Jennifer Foster -- Preliminary petrological report on the Gussage All Saints crucibles / Hilary Howard.
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Papers originally presented at a symposium on early metallurgy organised by the Historical Metallurgy Society and the British Museum Research Laboratory and held in April 1977.

Includes bibliographies.

Summary of results of experimental work on early copper smelting / R.F. Tylecote -- Investigations on the extractive metallurgy of Cu/Sb/As Ore and excavated smelting products from Norsun-Tepe (Keban) on the upper Euphrates (3500-2800 BC) / Ulrich Zwicker -- Investigations into primitive lead smelting and its products / R. Hetherington -- The analysis of Roman tin and pewter ingots / M.J. Hughes -- The composition of Iberian Bronze Age metalwork in the British Museum / P.T. Craddock -- Bronze in the British Bronze Age / J.P. Northover -- Metallurgical investigation of the bronze crater of Derveni / G.J. Varoufakis -- Blacksmiths' tools from Waltham Abbey, Essex / W.H. Manning -- Early medieval metalworking on Helgo in central Sweden / Kristina Lamm -- Metallurgical finds from a multi-period settlement at Mucking, Essex / M.U. Jones -- Metalworking at the Mote of Mark, Kirkudbright, in the 6th-7th centuries AD / N. Swindells, Lloyd Laing -- Gilding and tinning in Anglo-Saxon England / W.A. Oddy -- Gold and silver in the Roman world / K.S. Painter -- Early metallurgy in Italy / E.R. Eaton -- Joining techniques / Janet Lang, M.J. Hughes -- Weighing of gold in prehistoric Europe / M.G. Spratling -- Metalworking at Gussage All Saints, Dorset: a review of recent work / Jennifer Foster -- Preliminary petrological report on the Gussage All Saints crucibles / Hilary Howard.

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