Pretia Victoriae or Just an Occasional Bonus? Analysis of Iron Age Lead Artefacts from the Somerset Lake Villages

Autor:	Matthew Ponting
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	010506 paleontology Archeology 060102 archaeology Geography Planning and Development 06 humanities and the arts engineering.material 01 natural sciences Archaeology Lead (geology) Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Iron Age Galena Smelting engineering 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Zdroj:	Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 37:185-199
ISSN:	0262-5253
DOI:	10.1111/ojoa.12137
Popis:	This paper looks at the evidence for the extraction of silver from lead ores in Iron Age and Roman Britain. Analysis shows that many of the lead objects from the Somerset Lake Villages were made from Mendip lead, but their chemical composition suggests that they were not produced from lead that had been de‐silvered, but from smelted galena with variable silver content. Furthermore, analysis of a Roman lead pig, made from Charterhouse lead ores, shows that it was made of chemically identical lead. Does this mean that silver was not extracted from British lead in the Iron Age and Roman periods? The evidence discussed and the results of the analyses suggest that silver was not always extracted from lead even when it was economical to do so. This was a cultural choice and not a technological limitation, one also found in other times and places around the world.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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