Subject: | | Copper Casting Evidence |
From: | | "William Conner" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 09 Feb 2000 09:22:02 +0000525_- High tin bronze bowls containing typically 23% tin and exhibiting a quenched martensitic structure are known from ancient India and Thailand, mediaeval Islam and Korea, (and probably elsewhere), and were still being made very recently in South India. There is a fairly extensive bibliography. The decoration you describe appears to correspond with that seen in examples published by A. S. Melikian Chirvani, 'The white bronzes of early Islamic Iran', Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1974, 9, 123-51. [...]47_09Feb200009:22:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:22:43 -0400 |
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Greetings to all list members:
Ten years ago this month I went into the field for my first investigation of
a pit furnace site in South Central Ohio. As a way of observing this
anniversary, I’ve decided to brave the criticism and rejection, which may
result from the latest addition to my web site, “America’s Mysterious
Furnaces.”
As a native of Ross County, Ohio where the bulk of my investigations have
occurred, I feel obliged to promote the preservation of one of its most
valuable archaeological sites: Spruce Hill, a “fort hill.” Since 1811, the
site has mystified visitors, ordinary citizens and archaeologists alike,
with its enigmatic evidence of high temperature materials processing in
small pit furnaces.
I now believe its time to reveal “the smoking gun” level of evidence which
I’ve withheld so far. I feel I’ve been a member of the metals list long
enough to establish that I am knowledgeable about archaeo-metallurgy.
A photo of what I believe is a Hopewell Culture (200 BC to 400 AD) open mold
for casting native copper is now on display on my web site at:
“Prehistoric Furnaces: Evidence of Copper Casting”
http://www.iwaynet.net/~wdc/copper.htm
William D. Conner
908 S. Roys Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43204
Phone: 614-276-5219; e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
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