The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles: 5

ISBN-13: 9780901462961 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 272 str.

R. F. Tylecote

Opis

Comprehensively revised text of the author's 1962 Metallurgy in Archaeology, covering native metals, copper and copper-based alloys, tin, lead, silver, antimony and the fabrication of non-ferrous metals.

Spis treści

1. The native metals 2. Copper and copper alloys 3. The production and properties of tin and its alloys 4. Lead, silver and antimony 5. Fabrication 6. The coming of iron 7. The Roman Iron Age 8. Iron in the early medieval period 9. Water-powered bloomeries: the end of an era 10. The charcoal blast furnace and the finery 11. Fuels and their ashes

O autorze

R. F. Tylecote