ABSTRACT

This book presents wealth of information on British metallurgical aspects of archaeology and information on fuels and fuel ashes. It aims to integrate the scientific work and to build it more into the body of the archaeological report for both archaeologists and metallurgists.

chapter 1|9 pages

The native metals

chapter 2|33 pages

Copper and copper alloys

chapter 4|27 pages

Lead, silver, and antimony

chapter 5|43 pages

Methods of fabrication

chapter 6|31 pages

The coming of iron

chapter 7|24 pages

The Roman Iron Age

chapter 8|23 pages

Iron in the early medieval period

chapter 10|10 pages

The charcoal blast furnace and the finery

chapter 11|5 pages

Fuels and their ashes