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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Smithing"”.
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Ironworking in late medieval Ireland, c. AD. 1200 to 1600
… in copious amounts both during smelting and smithing, is virtually indestructible and has very little secondary use. This means that most sites where ironworking was carried out are readily recognizable as such by the occurrence of this slag. Moreover, visual examination can distinguish …
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The Use of Coal for Ferrous Metallurgy in Roman Britain
… In this thesis, the use of coal for blacksmithing in Roman Britain is definitively proven based on the analysis of iron production debris from a second-century CE blacksmithing workshop in Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum), Yorkshire, with confirmation from other Romano-British sites in …
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An Archaeometallurgical Study of Early Medieval Iron Technology. An examination of the quality and use of iron alloys in iron artefacts from Early Medieval Britain.
… alloys and employed a highly developed range of smithing techniques. Phosphoric iron was a prevalent alloy in this period. Based on these results, a model of the Early Medieval iron industry is generated, suggesting a vibrant economy in which both local and traded irons were significant.
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Forged in Fire: An anthracological investigation of woodland management and fuel selection for Iron Age metalworking at Culduthel, Invernesshire, UK
… workshops, nine smelting furnaces, and smithing hearths, which produced the largest later prehistoric metalworking assemblage in Scotland. Over the last two decades, research around this site has significantly altered many aspects of our understanding of Iron Age craft skills and …
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The human horse: equine husbandry, anthropomorphic hierarchies, and daily life in Lower Saxony, 1550-1735
… Although servicing both the general iron-smithing and healthcare needs of humans and cattle prior to the Thirty Years War, it was during the period of economic and social reconstruction during the mid-seventeenth century that German large-smiths across the Lüneburg heath began to place a …
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The Technology of Ancient and Medieval Directly Reduced Phosphoric Iron.
After carbon, phosphorus is the most commonly detected element in archaeological iron. The typical phosphoric iron range is 0.1wt% to 1wt%P. The predominant source of phosphorus in iron is the ore smelted. Around 60% of economic UK rock iron ore formations contain over 0.2%P. Under fully reducing …