Prehistoric and medieval direct iron smelting in Scandinavia and Europe : aspects of technology and society : proceedings of the Sandbjerg conference, 16th to 20th September 1999 / edited by Lars Christian Nørbach ; Comité pour la siderurgie ancienne, L'UISPP.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nørbach, Lars Christian.

International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Comité pour la sidérurgie ancienne.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Acta Jutlandica. Humanities series ; 75.

Acta Jutlandica ; 76:2.

Acta Jutlandica ; 76:2

Acta Jutlandica. Humanities series

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Smelting--Europe, Northern--History.

Smelting.

History.

Europe, Northern--Antiquities.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

335 pages : illustrations(some color), maps ; 32cm.

Other Title:

Iron smelting

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

One article in French, one in German, rest in English.

Contents:

1. Editor's Foreword and STATUTS de l'Union Internationale des Sciences prehistoriques et protohistoriques / Lars Christian Norbach 9

2. Radomir Pleiner CV / Vera Souchopova 13

3. Opening Lecture / Henrik Thrane 15

I. Iron Production and Settlement

4. Farmers, Smelters and Smiths / Henriette Lyngstrom 21

5. Relations Between Settlement Pattern, Social Structure and Medieval Iron Production / Lars Erik Narmo 27

6. Early Iron Production in the Red Earth Area, South Central Sweden / Lena Grandin, Eva Hjarthner-Holdar 33

7. The Germanic Iron-Smelting Complex at Wolkenberg in Lower Lausacia, Southern Brandenburg / Ines Spazier 37

8. Slag

With an Impression of Agricultural Practices / Peter Hambro Mikkelsen 43

9. The Late Roman Ironworking Site at Ponte di Val Gabbia III, Bienno (Brescia, Italy) / Constanza Cucini Tizzoni, Marco Tizzoni 49

10. Medieval Ironworking on Mount Amiata (Siena, Italy) / Maria Elena Cortese 55

II. Regional Studies

11. Between the Mountains and the Sea / Frank Nikulka 63

12. A Short History of Danish Iron Research / Lars Christian Norbach 67

13. Past to Present / Irene Schrufer-Kolb 71

14. Recent Results from Investigations of Iron Production in Northern Europe / Lars F. Stenvik 77

15. The Introduction of Iron in Sweden and Greece / Eva Hjarthner-Holdar, Christina Risberg 83

16. Ironmaking Techniques During the Roman Period in Lithuania / Jonas Navasaitis, Ausra Sveikauskaite, Algirdas Selskis, Eimutis Matulionis 87

III. Metallographic Investigations: Artefacts and Site

17. Notes on the Ferrous Technology of the Hispano-Islamic City of Vascos (Toledo) / Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz 97

18. Technical and Archaeological Investigation of an Early Iron Sword from Sweden / Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz 101

19. On Forging Technologies of Estonian Iron Age and Medieval Axes / Juri Peets 111

20. What Role do Electron Transfer and Silicate Melt Polymerisation Play in the Ironmaking Process? / Alain Ploquin, Michel Arnold, Cecile Mahe-le-Carlier 119

21. The Smithy Workshop of the Medieval Site of Leopoli-Cencelle (Viterbo, Italy) / Vasco La Salvia, L'ubomir Mihok 125

22. Metallographic Examination of Two Iron Age Hooked Blocks from England / Vanessa Fell 129

23. Iron Production and Artifact-Making at Cosne-sur-Loire (Nievre, France) in the Early Medieval Period / Alain Bouthier 135

24. Synthese des Etudes Metallographiques d'Echantillons de la forge de Ponte di val Gabbia III (Bienno V-VI century AD) / Par Philippe Fluzin 139

25. The Scythian Iron Dagger, Spearhead and Other Iron Objects from the Great Scythian Kurhan at Rizhanovka, Ukraine / Elzbieta Maria Nosek 147

IV. Metallographic Investigations: Regional Studies

26. Schlacken verschiedener Stufen der Eisentechnologie / Von Ingo Keesmann, Andreas Kronz 153

27. Metallurgy of Iron at the Beginning of the 1st Millenium AD in Slovakia / L'ubomir Mihok, Alena Pribulova 163

28. Bloomery Iron, Osmund Iron, Fined Iron and Puddled Iron / Vagn Fabritius Buchwald 171

29. Altena in Westphalia / Hans Ludvig Knau, Thomas Beier, Manfred Sonneken 177

30. European Iron Blooms / Radomir Pleiner 183

31. The Role of Phosphorus in Early Ironworking / E. G. Godfrey, A. Vizcaino, J. G. McDonnell 191

32. The Four Phases Carbon

Gas

Slag

Metal and their Interaction in Bloomery Ironmaking / Arne Espelund 195

V. Geophysic Prospecting and Archaeomagnetic Dating

33. Archaeomagnetic Mapping, Modelling, Analysis and Dating of Iron Age Slags in Denmark / Niels Abrahamsen, Bo Holm Jacobsen, Uwe Koppelt, Philip de Lasson, Tatyana Smekalova, Sidsel Grundvig, Olfert Voss 205

34. High Resolution Magnetic Surveys of Prehistoric and Medieval Iron-Smelting Furnaces in North-West Wales / Peter Crew, Tatyana Smekalova, Bruce Bevan 209

35. Field Procedures for Magnetic Investigations of Iron-Smelting Sites with Slag Pits / Tatyana Smekalova, Olfert Voss 223.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

8772887745

OCLC:

226089348