Dear Irene,
Thanks for your help - could you give me the full reference
for Tylecote 1986?
Thaks
Tony
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:47:55 +0100 (BST) "I.E.
Schrufer-Kolb" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tony Brown wrote:
>
> > I am not a metallurgist - so would be very glad if anyone
> > can help me over the possibility of peat having been used
> > for processing Sn/cassiterite. We have what appears to be a
> > record of Roman peat cutting up on Taw Marsh which has one
> > of the largest reserves of alluvial Sn on Dartmoor. We also
> > have downstream evidence of tin streaming during the
> > late Roman period from the area (in this case the Erme
> > valley. Could peat have been used for Sn smelting - can the
> > temperatures required be reached?
>
> This is likely to be the case, with a temperature of about 1000 degrees.
> Tylecote 1986, 224-5 has a short paragraph on the use of peat as a fuel in
> pre-modern times, including Dartmoor, and Peter Claughton once gave me a
> couple of references regarding peat charcoal production on Dartmoor and
> the Lizard (Peter?). May I add to this that peat was probably used in
> salt-making in the Fens in Roman times, indicating its use for the Roman
> period.
>
> Irene
>
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