The Analysis of Foundry Engineering of Copper Alloys Based on the Research of a Metallurgist Settlement in Szczepidło

Abstract

The article presents chosen aspects of foundry engineering of the settlement dwellers, including the archaeometric characteristics and metal science analysis of the artefacts, as well as an attempted reconstruction of the production organization. Discovered in Szczepidło (Greater Poland), the foundry workshop is unique in Central European Bronze Age.

Keywords

• Non-destructive testing
• Archaeometallurgy
• Bronze age workshop
• Investment casting
• Copper alloys
• X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy