A late medieval or early modern light gun barrel from the Castle Museum in Malbork—typology, technology of manufacture and identification of the smelting process
| Autor: | Mateusz Biborski, Ewelina Miśta-Jakubowska, Grzegorz Żabiński |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Slag inclusion analysis media_common.quotation_subject Barrel (horology) Hackbut 01 natural sciences Archaeometry Bloomery Military Hand-held firearms 0601 history and archaeology Archaeometallurgy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 060102 archaeology Castle Museum in Malbork Light artillery 06 humanities and the arts Smelting process Art Archaeology Multivariate statistics Anthropology 15th-16th c Gun barrel |
| Zdroj: | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11:2007-2026 |
| ISSN: | 1866-9565 1866-9557 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12520-018-0653-3 |
| Popis: | The paper discusses a gun barrel of a possibly late 15th-early 16th c. date from the collection of the Castle Museum in Malbork (Marienburg), Poland (MZM/468/MT). The barrel was originally part of a hand-held gun (a hackbut?) and was later converted into a light cannon. The barrel was made from unevenly carburised soft steel (c. 0.1-0.2% C). Both metallographic examinations and the analysis of slag inclusions with the use of multivariate statistics suggest that the metal in the barrel was manufactured using the direct (bloomery) smelting process. |
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