Gone to smelt iron in Courland
Technology transfer in the development of an early modern industry
Bibliographic Data
In the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, corresponding to the southern and western parts of present-day Latvia, an iron industry based on blast-furnace technology, mainly using local bog iron ore, existed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Transfer of knowledge and skill through the recruitment of specialists from other countries of Europe was crucial to the development of this industry; technology was also re-exported to Russia and elsewhere. Recent archaeological and archaeometallurgical investigations supplement the written evidence, highlighting the specific local conditions that influenced the development of ferrous metalworking here in the early modern period
Ancient history · Archaeology · Business · Economics · Economy · Geography · International trade · Political science · Technology transfer · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · History · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
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Evidence of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century iron production and ironworking in Vidzeme (the example of Ropaži manor)
A Sixteenth-Century Wealden Blast Furnace
Cannon-Manufacture at Pippingford, Sussex
The excavation of a late 16th-century blast furnace at Batsford, Herstmonceux, East Sussex, 1978
IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0-50,000 Years cal BP
The Development and Dissemination of the Walloon Method of Ironworking
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