The Early History of Metallurgy in Europe |
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The background | 4 |
Minerals and ores | 28 |
Native metals | 66 |
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alloys analyses antimony arsenic artifacts Ashwicken bars bellows blast furnace bloom bloomery bloomery slag bottom Bronze Age carbon cast iron century BC charcoal clay Composition contained copper-smelting core crucible cupellation dated density deposits diameter early Europe European example fayalite Figure flux forging fuel ash Germany gold Gussage Gussage All Saints hammer hearth heating hole Iron Age Laurion lead material Matte separated medieval melting point metal metallurgy minerals mining Mitterberg molten Museum native copper nd nd nd non-ferrous oxide pieces plano-convex ingots Pleiner pottery probably produced Rio Tinto roasting Roman period Rudna Glava Sardinia shaft furnace shows silicate silver SiO2 slag-pit smelter smelting smelting slag smith Spain steel stone moulds Stückofen sulphide surface Table tapping technique temperature thick tonnes trace trompe tuyere Tylecote usually viscosity welded wrought iron wüstite