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This 6 page paper considers the main metalworking techniques used in Western Europe during the period c.1100-1250 AD including a discussion on metalwork techniques that also involve the use of other materials such as enamels. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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increasing on popularity and the technology to create metal items was increasingly complex. Areas such as Milan were well known for their metal work abilities but the technology itself was
not new, merely adaptation and innovation based on much older abilities. Metal work had already developed into an art, examples such as the Strickland broach indicate the levels
which had been formerly seen as well as increasingly mixing metal with other materials when making goods. Examples include the portable alter found in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany dating
to 1200 CE and the Reliquary of St Eustace from Switzerland which dates to about 1210 (British Museum, 2005). Both of these relics are located in the British Museum
Room 42 case 4. Metalwork technology and abilities are sene in the manufacture of weapons, jewellery and household or domestic items such as jugs and buckles. If we look
at the use of iron and the way smelting took place there were few changes between this periods and the early Roman periods (Hunter and Ralston, 1999). The main difference
here was the source of the Iron, most above ground deposits had been exhausted and the use of tunnels and mine sis seen in the extraction of iron ore (Hunter
and Ralston, 1999). Smelting is the way in which the iron is separated from the other non metal components in iron ore. There were two main methods of smelting;
bowl furnaces and shaft furnaces, the alter seen more often in the later periods. Using this method iron ore would be heated to around 1200 degrees centigrade with the use
of charcoal. The result of heating the ore would be a spongy lump that would forged to remove the slag. The remaining iron could then be forged into tools.
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