Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London : British Museum, 1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oddy, W. A.
• Historical Metallurgy Society
• British Museum. Research Laboratory

Description

192 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

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.

Series Statement

British Museum Occasional Paper ; no. 17

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 17.

Subject

• Metallurgy > History > Congresses
• Metal-work, Prehistoric > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0861590163

OCLC

• 1031314724
• SCSB-10221974

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library