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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Pewter"”.
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
Past discussions of Romano-British pewter tableware have tended to view the vessels in representative terms, as evidence either for the ‘Romanisation’ of the south of Britain, or as signifiers of elite identity. This thesis builds a more holistic understanding of how these vessels may have been …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
Past discussions of Romano-British pewter tableware have tended to view the vessels in representative terms, as evidence either for the ‘Romanisation’ of the south of Britain, or as signifiers of elite identity. This thesis builds a more holistic understanding of how these vessels may have been …
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Mechanical and Structural Properties of Microwave Sintered Tin-Copper-Antimony Alloys
Tin-copper-antimony (pewter) alloys have been traditionally produced by a casting process which consumes large amounts of energy, time and as a result is expensive. This research aims to investigate the possibilities of implementing powder metallurgy for pewter production through a sintering …
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Romarchite and Other Corrosion Phases on Metal Artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge (1718)
… analysis was conducted of the surfaces of pewter artifacts, made from a tin-rich alloy, revealing corrosion products composed of romarchite (SnO), hydroromarchite (5SnO.2H2O), and abhurite (Sn3O(OH)2Cl2). For comparison, corroded pewter artifacts originating from five other archaeological …
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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana
… by a mass of trade goods, including brass and pewter basins, brass manillas, lead rolls, trade beads, pins, cowrie shells, as well as large iron cannons.</p> <p>I utilize a multi-scalar approach in this research, which allows me to take the shipwreck as the basic unit of analysis (an event or …
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"I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women
… what they owned and valued: clothing, cupboards, pewter dishes, commonplace books, etc. But some women passed down something more: a written testament, which sought to shape public opinion in colonial New England. A "testament" usefully suggests a text that both serves as a witness to lived …