Subject: | | Blacksmithing residues |
From: | | Thilo Rehren <[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, 6 Jan 2000 15:52:12 -0000 |
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Not to forget the substantial and extremely well-documented and quantified
work done by the Crews back in Wales! See Historical Metallurgy 25 (1),
1991, p 21ff and vol. 32 (2), 1998, p49ff for further details and a first
start, and others elsewhere. Certainly a good basis to do some armchair
calculations, even if it is not nails, but bars.
Thilo
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