R F Tylecote
Biographic Data
| ID | 1133671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R F Tylecote |
| GIVEN NAMES | R F |
| FAMILY NAME | Tylecote |
| SIGNATURE | TYLECOTE R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The composition of tin slags from the south-west of England
This paper discusses tin slags from archaeological contexts in the south‐west of England dating from the Early Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. It also includes slags resulting from a recent experimental smelting programme. Analyses show that there has been little change in composition over this period and that most primary tin slags contain from 10–30 per cent stannous oxide in the glass phase, with tin metal prills more common in the early…
The Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles
A revision of Tylecote's 1962 Metallurgy in Archaeology (see AATA 4-3960 ), this book provides a technical account of prehistoric metallurgical processes and artifacts. It covers the winning and fabrication of all metals in the British Isles from the beginning of metallurgy there through the early modern period. It reflects the growing use of metallographic methods of analysis in the examination of artifacts and other trends in archaeometry. Illu…
Unidentified artefact 3
Scottish antimony
Antimony is not a metal that is as familiar to us as lead, tin and copper; yet from the Middle Ages onwards it has been and still is a metal to be reckoned with. Today, it is mainly used for hardening lead and in this role it appears in batteries, type-metal and engine bearings, and in the form of a compound in matches and pigments. Historically, Scotland has been one of the main sources, if not the only one, in the British Isles. A mine and smel…
The behaviour of lead as a corrosion resistant medium undersea and in soils
Early Copper in the Balkans
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Scientific studies in early mining and extractive metallurgy
Smelting Copper Ore from Rudna Glava, Yugoslavia
Jovanovič has recently drawn attention to the early copper mine at Rudna Glava in the copper mining area of Maidanpek-Bor in Eastern Serbia (Jovanovič 1979, 103). This copper deposit has iron associated with it. In some respects this occurrence of iron and copper together compares with the deposit at Phalabora in South Africa where copper and other minerals are mined today. Rudna Glava has been a copper mine in the Chalcolithic period and an iron…
From Pot Bellows to Tuyeres
From Pot Bellows to Tuyeres
Iron Sands from the Black Sea
The use of iron-bearing sands such as those of the Black Sea has often been thought of as an early source of iron ore by archaeo-metallurgists. Indeed Japan was an avid user of such material as late as the 19th century, and its use was being considered by the Turkish authorities in 1975. The black sands of the south side of the Black Sea are very extensive, and obvious to the layman because of their unusual nature. They are also highly magnetic a…
Copper ingots and marine copper
A Middle Saxon Iron Smelting Site at Ramsbury, Wiltshire
EXCAVATIONS on a site in the High Street, Ramsbury revealed an iron smelting and smithing site datable by radioxcarbon determination and analysis of the finds to the late 8th and early 9th centuries. The industrial structures consisted of bowl furnaces and associated features of at least three phases, and included a timber-framed shelter. A ‘developed bowl’ furnace with slag-tapping facilities was built in the last phase, and had survived to a su…
The effect of soil conditions on the long-term corrosion of buried tin-bronzes and copper
Historical archaeology: A structural approach in an african culture
A History of Metallurgy
Durable materials for sea water: The archaeological evidence
Partitioning of trace elements between the ores, fluxes, slags and metal during the smelting of copper
Officina Ferraria: A Polish Poem of 1612 Describing the Noble Craft of Ironwork
Ancient Copper and Bronze in Sardinia: Excavation and Analysis
Concurrent projects have been undertaken in an effort to explore the problems associated with ancient metalworking on the island of Sardinia. Of these projects, an excavation by Tufts University is cited and the analysis of copper oxhide ingots described in detail
Perspectives
Beno Rothenberg, R. F. Tylecote, Strathmore R. B. Cooke, Stanley E. Aschenbrenner, George Odell, Ruth Tringham, Michael Roberts, Barbara Voytek, Anne Whitman, Robert M. Schacht, Perspectives, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1976), pp. 236-240
The Segregation and Surfaceenrichment of Arsenic and Phosphorus in Early Iron Artifacts
S Previous work on iron‐arsenic alloys has shown that considerable superficial arsenic enrichment occurs during oxidation at high temperatures. This process is very likely to be the explanation for the layers of high arsenic concentration that have been observed in the microstructure of early iron artifacts by many workers. Experiments have been made to determine how far the alternative theory of the use of Fe‐As alloys as joining media could be …
The working of copper-arsenic alloys in the Early Bronze Age and the effect on the determination of provenance
The earliest copper alloy of the British Bronze Age is arsenical copper, a material relatively short-lived when compared with the succeeding tin bronze but of no little importance when tracing the stages and progress of prehistoric metal working. Like tin, arsenic functions as a mild deoxidant and confers the useful property of work-hardening upon the metal. Copper-arsenic alloys need to be strengthened by cold working, and it was probably this r…
A Contribution to the Metallurgy of 18th- and 19th-Century Brass Pins
The production of brass wire for wool cards I was a problem for the British economy throughout medieval times. Before the middle of the 16th century the copper industry of Britain was not in a very healthy state but by Elizabethan times, through the efforts of the Society of Mines Royal, the Mineral and Battery Co. and German specialists, this was to some extent remedied. But there seems to have been something wrong with the brass wire industry i…
The Composition of Metal Artifacts: A Guide to Provenance
This is probably the question most often asked of the metallurgist by the archaeologiist, and the object of this report is to show how far we have got in our attempts to answer it.First, it must be clearly understood that we can only expect some correlation between ore and weapon or utensil, and therefore provenance in the early eras of metallurgy, where the bulk of the metal used emanated from primary sources, and where the amount of secondary r…
Partitioning of trace elements between the ores, fluxes, slags and metal during the smelting of copper
The working of copper-arsenic alloys in the Early Bronze Age and the effect on the determination of provenance
The earliest copper alloy of the British Bronze Age is arsenical copper, a material relatively short-lived when compared with the succeeding tin bronze but of no little importance when tracing the stages and progress of prehistoric metal working. Like tin, arsenic functions as a mild deoxidant and confers the useful property of work-hardening upon the metal. Copper-arsenic alloys need to be strengthened by cold working, and it was probably this r…
The composition of tin slags from the south-west of England
This paper discusses tin slags from archaeological contexts in the south‐west of England dating from the Early Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. It also includes slags resulting from a recent experimental smelting programme. Analyses show that there has been little change in composition over this period and that most primary tin slags contain from 10–30 per cent stannous oxide in the glass phase, with tin metal prills more common in the early…
The effect of soil conditions on the long-term corrosion of buried tin-bronzes and copper
The Composition of Metal Artifacts: A Guide to Provenance
This is probably the question most often asked of the metallurgist by the archaeologiist, and the object of this report is to show how far we have got in our attempts to answer it.First, it must be clearly understood that we can only expect some correlation between ore and weapon or utensil, and therefore provenance in the early eras of metallurgy, where the bulk of the metal used emanated from primary sources, and where the amount of secondary r…
Ancient Copper and Bronze in Sardinia: Excavation and Analysis
Concurrent projects have been undertaken in an effort to explore the problems associated with ancient metalworking on the island of Sardinia. Of these projects, an excavation by Tufts University is cited and the analysis of copper oxhide ingots described in detail
A Middle Saxon Iron Smelting Site at Ramsbury, Wiltshire
EXCAVATIONS on a site in the High Street, Ramsbury revealed an iron smelting and smithing site datable by radioxcarbon determination and analysis of the finds to the late 8th and early 9th centuries. The industrial structures consisted of bowl furnaces and associated features of at least three phases, and included a timber-framed shelter. A ‘developed bowl’ furnace with slag-tapping facilities was built in the last phase, and had survived to a su…
Durable materials for sea water: The archaeological evidence
The behaviour of lead as a corrosion resistant medium undersea and in soils
Early Copper in the Balkans
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Copper ingots and marine copper
Smelting Copper Ore from Rudna Glava, Yugoslavia
Jovanovič has recently drawn attention to the early copper mine at Rudna Glava in the copper mining area of Maidanpek-Bor in Eastern Serbia (Jovanovič 1979, 103). This copper deposit has iron associated with it. In some respects this occurrence of iron and copper together compares with the deposit at Phalabora in South Africa where copper and other minerals are mined today. Rudna Glava has been a copper mine in the Chalcolithic period and an iron…
Iron Sands from the Black Sea
The use of iron-bearing sands such as those of the Black Sea has often been thought of as an early source of iron ore by archaeo-metallurgists. Indeed Japan was an avid user of such material as late as the 19th century, and its use was being considered by the Turkish authorities in 1975. The black sands of the south side of the Black Sea are very extensive, and obvious to the layman because of their unusual nature. They are also highly magnetic a…
A Contribution to the Metallurgy of 18th- and 19th-Century Brass Pins
The production of brass wire for wool cards I was a problem for the British economy throughout medieval times. Before the middle of the 16th century the copper industry of Britain was not in a very healthy state but by Elizabethan times, through the efforts of the Society of Mines Royal, the Mineral and Battery Co. and German specialists, this was to some extent remedied. But there seems to have been something wrong with the brass wire industry i…
Roman Lead Working in Britain
Synopsis The exploitation of the lead resources of this country by the Romans commenced very soon after their arrival and shows every sign of being a well organized trade. Little evidence of deep mining has survived and it is probable that most of the ore was obtained by means of shallow workings, mainly in Somerset, Salop, Flintshire and Derbyshire. Although the silver content does not seem ever to have been as high as that of some well-known mi…
A Report Upon Analytical Methods, Presented by the Ancient Mining and Metallurgy Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Roman Lead Working in Britain
Synopsis The exploitation of the lead resources of this country by the Romans commenced very soon after their arrival and shows every sign of being a well organized trade. Little evidence of deep mining has survived and it is probable that most of the ore was obtained by means of shallow workings, mainly in Somerset, Salop, Flintshire and Derbyshire. Although the silver content does not seem ever to have been as high as that of some well-known mi…
Metallurgy in Archaeology: A Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles
The Composition of Metal Artifacts: A Guide to Provenance
This is probably the question most often asked of the metallurgist by the archaeologiist, and the object of this report is to show how far we have got in our attempts to answer it.First, it must be clearly understood that we can only expect some correlation between ore and weapon or utensil, and therefore provenance in the early eras of metallurgy, where the bulk of the metal used emanated from primary sources, and where the amount of secondary r…
The working of copper-arsenic alloys in the Early Bronze Age and the effect on the determination of provenance
The earliest copper alloy of the British Bronze Age is arsenical copper, a material relatively short-lived when compared with the succeeding tin bronze but of no little importance when tracing the stages and progress of prehistoric metal working. Like tin, arsenic functions as a mild deoxidant and confers the useful property of work-hardening upon the metal. Copper-arsenic alloys need to be strengthened by cold working, and it was probably this r…
A Contribution to the Metallurgy of 18th- and 19th-Century Brass Pins
The production of brass wire for wool cards I was a problem for the British economy throughout medieval times. Before the middle of the 16th century the copper industry of Britain was not in a very healthy state but by Elizabethan times, through the efforts of the Society of Mines Royal, the Mineral and Battery Co. and German specialists, this was to some extent remedied. But there seems to have been something wrong with the brass wire industry i…
The Segregation and Surfaceenrichment of Arsenic and Phosphorus in Early Iron Artifacts
S Previous work on iron‐arsenic alloys has shown that considerable superficial arsenic enrichment occurs during oxidation at high temperatures. This process is very likely to be the explanation for the layers of high arsenic concentration that have been observed in the microstructure of early iron artifacts by many workers. Experiments have been made to determine how far the alternative theory of the use of Fe‐As alloys as joining media could be …
Ancient Copper and Bronze in Sardinia: Excavation and Analysis
Concurrent projects have been undertaken in an effort to explore the problems associated with ancient metalworking on the island of Sardinia. Of these projects, an excavation by Tufts University is cited and the analysis of copper oxhide ingots described in detail
Perspectives
Beno Rothenberg, R. F. Tylecote, Strathmore R. B. Cooke, Stanley E. Aschenbrenner, George Odell, Ruth Tringham, Michael Roberts, Barbara Voytek, Anne Whitman, Robert M. Schacht, Perspectives, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1976), pp. 236-240
Durable materials for sea water: The archaeological evidence
Partitioning of trace elements between the ores, fluxes, slags and metal during the smelting of copper
Officina Ferraria: A Polish Poem of 1612 Describing the Noble Craft of Ironwork
A History of Metallurgy
The effect of soil conditions on the long-term corrosion of buried tin-bronzes and copper
Historical archaeology: A structural approach in an african culture
Copper ingots and marine copper
A Middle Saxon Iron Smelting Site at Ramsbury, Wiltshire
EXCAVATIONS on a site in the High Street, Ramsbury revealed an iron smelting and smithing site datable by radioxcarbon determination and analysis of the finds to the late 8th and early 9th centuries. The industrial structures consisted of bowl furnaces and associated features of at least three phases, and included a timber-framed shelter. A ‘developed bowl’ furnace with slag-tapping facilities was built in the last phase, and had survived to a su…
From Pot Bellows to Tuyeres
From Pot Bellows to Tuyeres
Iron Sands from the Black Sea
The use of iron-bearing sands such as those of the Black Sea has often been thought of as an early source of iron ore by archaeo-metallurgists. Indeed Japan was an avid user of such material as late as the 19th century, and its use was being considered by the Turkish authorities in 1975. The black sands of the south side of the Black Sea are very extensive, and obvious to the layman because of their unusual nature. They are also highly magnetic a…
Scientific studies in early mining and extractive metallurgy
Smelting Copper Ore from Rudna Glava, Yugoslavia
Jovanovič has recently drawn attention to the early copper mine at Rudna Glava in the copper mining area of Maidanpek-Bor in Eastern Serbia (Jovanovič 1979, 103). This copper deposit has iron associated with it. In some respects this occurrence of iron and copper together compares with the deposit at Phalabora in South Africa where copper and other minerals are mined today. Rudna Glava has been a copper mine in the Chalcolithic period and an iron…
The behaviour of lead as a corrosion resistant medium undersea and in soils
Early Copper in the Balkans
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Unidentified artefact 3
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