Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lactodurum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia.Today it is known as Towcester, located in the English county of Northamptonshire.. Towcester lays claim to being the oldest town in Northamptonshire and possibly, because of the antiquity of recent Iron Age finds in the town, to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the country.
Kinneddar is located on a raised ridge of land originally on the edge of Loch Spynie, [4] with the loch's marshes surrounding the site on three sides. [5] Loch Spynie was a sea loch during the medieval period, stretching 11 km from Kinneddar west to Burghead and providing sheltered anchorage for seagoing vessels. [6]
Knowledge of the use of copper was far more widespread than the metal itself. The European Battle Axe culture used stone axes modeled on copper axes, even with moulding carved in the stone. [17] Ötzi the Iceman, who was found in the Ötztal Alps in 1991 and whose remains have been dated to about 3300 BC, was found with a Mondsee copper axe.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Flake hammerscale is produced in large quantities during multiple stages of the smithing process. To create the pure iron necessary for forging, a smith must first purify the iron ore. The smelting of ore creates a "bloom", a porous mixture of slag and metal. The smith then repeatedly heats and hammers the bloom to remove impurities.
Smithing process in Mediterranean environment, Valencian Museum of Ethnology. Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer, an anvil and a chisel. Heating generally takes place in a forge fueled by propane, natural gas, coal, charcoal, coke, or oil.
Map of Europe based on Strabo's geography, showing the Cassiterides just off the northwest tip of Iberia By classical Greek times, the tin sources were well established. Greece and the Western Mediterranean appear to have traded their tin from European sources, while the Middle East acquired their tin from Central Asian sources through the Silk ...
The Saint-Bélec slab is a stone artefact from western Brittany thought to be a map of an early Bronze Age principality. [1] It was discovered by Paul du Châtellier in a prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, where it formed part of an early Bronze Age cist structure.