Dear colleagues, recently, I did some metallurgical and metallographic analyses on several bronze ingots that came from a non stratigraphic zone at the foot of Tel Kinrot, the Sea of Galilee, Israel.
They are disc shaped, weighing circa 2kg each and are 170mm in diameter and circa 20mm thick. They all have an as-cast dendritic bronze structure and are made of (according to WDS analyses) Cu + 2-4wt%Sn, and: 0.3%As; 0.1%Fe; 0.08%Sb; circa0.3%Pb&S.
The best relative typologically similar ingots, I know, are from the cargo of Cape Gelidonya L.B. shipwreck and L.B. Tel Hazor, both, plano-convex in shape and made of unalloyed copper.
I wonder if any of you experts happened to come upon something similar to our disc shaped bronze ingots in other parts of the world and/or other periods.
Any additional data will be most appreciable.
Many thanks in advance, Sariel Shalev.
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Surely somebody must have been doing interesting work that they'd share with
the rest of us.
How about sending a contribution for the Archaeometallurgy Section of the
Historical Metallurgy Newsletter?
I'd be pleased to hear of any field/lab/desk-based work, completed or
ongoing.
All I'm asking is for a paragraph or two and am very happy to receive
contributions by email
Looking forward to hearing from you all in the near future...
Dave
David Starley PhD
Science Officer
Royal Armouries Museum
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