The archaeometallurgy of iron : recent developments in archaeological and scientific research : dedicated to Professor Radomír Pleiner

Dedicated to Professor Radomír Pleiner. Within this volume, several authors from both western and eastern Europe introduces in eighteen contributions recent and/or summarizing results of archaeological and scientific research into the making and working of iron in antiquity and more recent periods, along with a number of related issues. The book is divided into following sections: 1) examples of ancient bloomery furnaces and the development of iron metallurgy in Europe, 2) examples of research on ancient and early European iron forging, 3) examples of involvement of archaeometallurgy into archaeological, historical and historical-technological research, 4) examples of experimental archaeometallurgy. Foreword Radomír Pleiner: the magister ferrariarum at 80 / by H. Cleere Examples of ancient bloomery furnaces and the development of iron metallurgy in Europe A new perspective on the ancient slag-pit bloomery smelting furnace / by K. Bielenin The canal-pit and its role in the bloomery process: the example of the Przeworsk culture furnaces in the Polish territories / by S. Orzechowski The oldest iron-smelting furnaces in Denmark / by A. Jouttijärvi and O. Voss Some results and questions of the archaeometallurgy in Hungary / by J. Gömöri Some aspects of the development of Great Moravian iron metallurgy / by V. Souchopová, J. Merta and O. Merta Norway as as a bloomery iron producer / by A. Espelund Examples of research on ancient and early European iron forging The chemical and metallographic analyses of the prehistoric ring from the 'Bull's Rock' cave / by K. Stránský The craft of the Dacian blacksmiths / by Ĺ. Mihok and V. G. Kotigoroshko Early medieval knife manufacture in Britain: a comparison between rural and urban settlements (AD 400-1000) / by E. Blakelock and G. McDonnell Metallography of knives from the medieval village of Hrdlovka and the burial ground of Zlončice, Bohemia / by J. Hošek and P. Meduna Technological traditions in the craft of the blacksmith in old Russian Shestovitsa / by G. A. Voznesenskaya Further metallographic studies on early armour from Churburg / by A. Williams From Soissons to Beauvais: the use of iron in some French cathedrals / by P. Dillmann Examples of involvement of archaeometallurgy into archaeological, historical and historical-technological research Archaeological metallography in Russia: historiographic notes / by V. I. Zavyalov Archaeometallography in solving historical and cultural problems / by V. I. Zavyalov, L. S. Rozanova and N. N. Terekhova The multidisciplinary approach (archaeology and archaeometry) to bloom-smithing activities in France: examples of results from the last 20 years / by P. Fluzin, S. Bauvais, M. Berranger, G. Pagès and P. Dillmann Examples of experimental archaeometallurgy. Cast iron from a bloomery furnace / by P. Crew, M. Charlton, P. Dillmann, P. Fluzin, C. Salter and E. Truffaut The Celtic sword: a source of practical inspiration / by J. Lang Index of Places Summary in Czech Plates