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Catalogue of metallographic examinations of iron objects from medieval sites
Hošek, Jiří
The article introduces the catalogue, which has been prepared in the Laboratories of conservation CAS Prague and which should help archaeometallurgists and archaeologists gain a basic orientation in the archaeometallurgical research into Bohemian and Moravian medieval iron objects that has been carried out to date. Since a number of such metallographic examinations have already been published it was decided above all to insert sites and objects from the 13th to 15th centuries in the first part of the catalogue. The metallography of objects from the medieval village of Pfaffenschlag is shown here as example of how the single sites are treated there.
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New archaeological finds from Horská Kvilda
Hošek, Jiří ; Kudrnáč, Jaroslav
Several iron objects and pieces of slag, including a 14th to 15th centuries war-knife and horseshoe, were found in an area of medieval gold mines near Horská Kvilda in 2002. The war-knife had a blade of high quality with a butt-welded and quenched cutting edge, the handle was presumably made of horn and a guard piece was lily-shaped. There is no doubt that this weapon belongs among the more precious and decorated pieces and we can assume its relation to a higher social environment. The horseshoe (suitable for front hoofs) wasn’t provided by steel (in order to improve its abrasion resistance) and thus ranks among simple products.
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Experiment ALICE
Hošek, Jiří ; Hřivnáčová, Ivana ; Kugler, Andrej ; Kushpil, Vasilij ; Kushpil, Svetlana ; Petráček, Vojtěch ; Řehák, P. ; Šafařík, K. ; Šumbera, Michal ; Tlustý, Pavel ; Wagner, Vladimír ; Zákoucký, Dalibor
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A metallurgical examination of a knife made of wrought iron (The experimental smelting in Josefov 2002)
Hošek, Jiří ; Merta, J. ; Malý, K.
The article deals with a metallographical examination of a knife forged out of experimentally smelted iron bloom. The examined specimen has revealed a striped structure with bands enriched by nickel and cobalt. Besides of that a sample taken from the bloom has been analysed. It revealed high carbon content. Due to low nickel content in iron ore as well as in the bloom there is just low probability that nickel-rich bands (less then 2% Ni) of archaeological iron artefacts could be used for an estimation of a nickel content in original ores.
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