Research Catalog

Title

The prehistory of metallurgy in the British Isles / R.F. Tylecote.

Author

Tylecote, R. F.

Publication

London : Institute of Metals, ©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tylecote, R. F.

Description

xii, 257 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Subject

• Metallurgy > Great Britain > History
• Metallurgy
• Metallurgie
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Prehistoric peoples > Tools > Great Britain
• Mineral industries, Prehistoric > Great Britain
• Métallurgie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
• Archaeology
• Metallurgy and metallography
• Great Britain
• Britische Inseln

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Metallurgy in Archaeology. 1962.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

THE NATIVE METALS: Gold -- NAtive copper -- Native Iron -- COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS: The location of copper ores -- The composition of copper ores and its significance -- The introduction of smelting 00 Smelting, melting and refining techniques -- The composition of copper-base artificats -- The corrosion of copper and copper-base aloys -- THE PRODUCTION AND PROPERTIES OF TIN AND ITS ALLOYS: Tin dressing -- Tin smelting -- tin ingots -- Tin and pewter artocfacts -- The corrison of tin and tin alloys -- LEAD, SILVER AND ANTIMONY: Methods of smelting -- The recovery of silver from lead -- The Roman lead industry -- The later lead industries -- Typical lead and silver finds -- Corrosion products on lead and silver -- Antimony -- FABRICATION: Casting -- Crucibles -- Metal forming and plating processes -- Production and composition of coins -- THE COMING OF IRON: Iron ores -- Principles of prehsitoric and early smelting -- THe preparation of iron ore for smelting -- Fuels -- Iron smelting furnaces -- Examples of smelting furances and smithing hearths - Iron and steel objects from the Early Iron Age -- THE ROMAN IRON AGE: Roasting hearths -- Smelting furnaces -- Smithing furnaces -- Iron and steel products -- The composition of slags and residues -- Summary -- IRON IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD: Ore-pit mining -- Roasting -- Smelting furnaces -- Smithies and smithing hearths -- Anglo-Saxon and early medieval artifacts -- Slags --- Summary -- WATER-POWERED BLOOMERIES THE END OF AN ERA: Ore mining -- Roasting -- Excavated smelting and smithing sites -- Late bloomery iron and its composition -- Composition of late bloomery slags -- Conclusion -- THE CHAROCOAL BLAST FURNACE AND THE FINERY: the introduction of the blast furnace to Britain -- Early British blast furnaces -- Metal, ores and fluuxes -- The finery and the conversion forge -- Summary -- FUELS AND THEIR ASHES: Wood -- Dung and dung cakes -- Pear -- Charcoal -- coal and coke -- Bone -- Vitrified clay and stone.

ISBN

• 0904357724
• 9780904357721
• 0901462969
• 9780901462961

LCCN

86176483

OCLC

• ocm14132734
• 14132734
• SCSB-9057349

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library