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Hist Metall 36 (2)
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Title:
Hist Metall 36 (2)
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Series:
Historical Metallurgy
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Volume:
36 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Justine Bayley
Sam Murphy
David W Crossley
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Publisher:
Historical Metallurgy Society
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Year of Publication:
2002
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date:
23 Feb 2006
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Tin smelting slags from Crift Farm, Cornwall, and the effect of changing technology on slag composition
A Malham
J Aylett
E Higgs
J G McDonnell
84 - 94
Tin-smelting slag from the medieval (c. 1200 AD) site at Crift Farm in Cornwall was analysed using SEM/EDS. A comparison was made between the chemical composition of this slag, which was produced by a simple hand-blowing technology, and slag from seven tin-working sites of later date which employed a more sophisticated water-powered blowing-house technology. The chemical compositions of areas within single pieces of slag were found to be highly variable, suggesting a highly viscous material with little mixing during smelting. The Crift Farm slag was found to have a chemical composition sufficiently similar to the later `blowing house' slags that it could not be distinguished from them by this method of analysis.
A practical treatise on the smelting and smithing of bloomery iron
Lee Sauder
Skip Williams
122 - 131
The paper describes the authors' explorations of the process of bloomery smelting in a shaft furnace, and in particular a typical smelt by the most efficient regimen so far discovered. A bloomsmithing experiment is also described, and yields, resources, and labour requirements are quantified. The authors offer some observations of points on which their experience differs from accounts given in the literature, and suggest that these methods may productively be applied to archaeological reconstructions of ancient bloomeries.
Abstracts
136 - 142