Perhaps Benner Larsen, who has done a great deal of work on tool marks
and developed new ways to photograph them at high resolution, in
Denmark, may be a good contact...I do not have his e-mail but he did
work at the Conservation School in Copenhagen....all the best...David
....I suppose if the tools were made of a hardened bronze, the
softness of gold might make it difficult to distinguish between an
ordinary low carbon steel and a good bronze.....d
Quoting Jack <[log in to unmask]>:
> I've been doing some research on tool marks on ancient gold
> (again!). In some cases splits or 'chips' in the end of little
> punches or similar tools leave corresponding raised marks within the
> punched hollows. My gut reaction is to equate very sharp impressions
> (repeated over many deprssions) and indications chipped tool blades
> with iron/steel rather than copper alloys, but I wonder if anyone
> has done any work on this, or on the wear/chipping/retention of
> sharp edges/splitting of small copper alloy tools? We are talking
> about tools with ends a millimetre or two length or diameter.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jack Ogden
>
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