The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

Chapter Sixteen - work will also be influenced by the specific properties of gold and silver alloys, in particular their ducti ...

The Technology of Metalwork - and an eye for accuracy and regularity in their shape and dimensions. They were probably made an ...

Chapter Sixteen - and the recycling of gold already in circulation either within the Celtic world or from outside it, often in ...

The Technology of Metalwork - impression is that the weight of gold available for use was much less than in the Late Bronze Ag ...

Chapter Sixteen - of continuity with Hallstatt traditions and techniques. The first of these concern deposition. The rich Hall ...

The Technology of Metalwork - been found in French hoards. They might be formed from a single, twisted square bar at Montan, T ...

Chapter Sixteen - Mediterranean but the other objects are more difficult to assess. Two twisted rod bracelets may be local cop ...

The Technology of Metalwork - the more important metal. Familiar forms are re-interpreted in silver, such as torques formed fr ...

Chapter Sixteen - of rather thick sheet-metal, as thick as, or thicker than the bronze sheet they would have known. The same s ...

The Technology of Metalwork - hoards there was clearly a hierarchy of torques from the most elaborate gold creations to basic ...

Chapter Sixteen REFERENCES Almagro Gorbea, M. (1989) 'Orfebreria orientalizante', Revista de Arqueologia 198. Bayley, J. (1990) ...

The Technology of Metalwork - Eluere, C. (1982) Les Ors prihistoriques, L'Age du bronze en France II: Paris: Picard. --(1985) ...

Chapter Sixteen - Jope, E.M. (1983) 'Hallstatt D daggers: Britain and Europe', Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology, Unive ...

The Technology of Metalwork - O'Connor, A. and Clarke, D.V. (eds) (1983) From the Stone Age to the 'Forty-Five, Studies presen ...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN IRONWORKING IN THE CELTIC WORLD --.... -- W.H. Manning A lthough the Iron Age did not begin north of the Alps ...

Ironworking in the Celtic World - in a simple furnace. However, in the same way that the addition of tin to copper produces an ...

Chapter Seventeen - twelfth century Be which spread the techniques of iron working to their neighbours, including the Greeks. ...

lronworking in the Celtic World - earliest furnaces used for smelting iron were probably based on the furnaces used for smelti ...

Chapter Seventeen - Unlike bronze, wrought iron is only slightly hardened by hammering; only by alloying it with another eleme ...

Ironworking in the Celtic World - resilience of the iron. The idea of quenching the metal may have come from work- ing sheet-b ...