Characterising copper-based metals in Britain in the first millennium AD: a preliminary quantification of metal flow and recycling

• Autores: A. M. Pollard, Peter Bray, Chris Gosden, Andrew Wilson, Helena Hamerow
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 89, Nº 345, 2015, págs. 697-713
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For many years, archaeologists and archaeometallurgists have suggested that recycled copper might have constituted a significant component of the metal in circulation in Britain during the first millennium AD. They have generally failed, however, to suggest a way of observing and quantifying this phenomenon. Here the authors propose a new methodology to rectify this. A large new database of chemical analyses of British copper alloys dating from the late Iron Age to the early medieval period demonstrates the potential of their approach; it shows that significant and measureable changes occur in metal circulation at the beginning of the first century AD and in the early Saxon period.