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Tales of the Iron Bloomery : Ironmaking in Southeastern Norway - Foundation of Statehood c. AD 700-1300.
"In Tales of the Iron Bloomery, Bernt Rundberget examines the ironmaking in southern Hedmark in Norway in the period AD 700-1300. Excavations show that this method is distinctive and geographically limited; this is expressed by the technology, organization, development and large-scale productio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2016.
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| Colección: | Northern world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tales of the Iron Bloomery: Ironmaking in Southeastern Norway-Foundation of Statehood c. ad 700-1300; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; Area and Boundaries; Chronological Depth; The Evidence; Topics and Aims; Key Issues; Outlying Land and Its Use; Regions and Technological Boundaries; Exploiting the Landscape; The Economic Context of Jernvinna-Domestic Activity, Craft or Something More?; 2 Research Backdrop; Status of Research; The Introduction of Iron and Jernvinna; Methods of Production in Chronological Terms.
- The Slag Tapping Furnace in Europe and ScandinaviaCharcoal Burning, Spatially and Temporally; Bog Ore and Roasting Places; 3 Jernvinna in the Gråfjell Area-Conformity in Distinctiveness; Introduction; Rolf Falck-Muus-A Major Contributor; Recent Surveys and Excavations; Bloomery Ironmaking in the Gråfjell Area-Form and Facts; The Archaeological Investigations; The Slag Tapping Furnace of the Gråfjell Area-A Distinct Method; Unexcavated Bloomery Sites; From Concept to Symmetrical Organization; Bloomery Sheds; Occupation or Settlement?; Rødsmoen and the Gråfjell Area Compared.
- Charcoal Pits-From Statistical Bulk Sample to Organizational FactorRoasting Places-A Factor in a Comprehensive Understanding; Organization and Exploitation of Resources; 4 A Regional Tradition; The Source Material; South Østerdalen; Solør; Hedemarken; The Delimitation of the Hedmark Tradition; 5 The Dating of the Hedmark Tradition; Introduction; The Bayesian Approach; The Summing of Radiocarbon Dates; Wood Species and the Dating of the Hedmark Tradition; Wood Species Determinations; Annual Growth Ring Counts and Dendrochronology; The Bayesian Approach-Precise Dating of the Period of Use.
- The Gråfjell Area-a Specific Chronology14C Dates at Rødsmoen; The Dating of jernvinna in Hedmark; 6 The Volume of Production from the Hedmark Tradition; Calculations of the Volume of Slag Heaps; Calculations of Volume of Slag; Calculations of Yield; The Volume of Charcoal Production; The Volume of Iron Production; The Consumption of Raw Materials and Yield; Volume and Period of Use; The Volume of Iron from the Hedmark Tradition; The Volume of Production through Time; 7 The Study Area in the Light of Archaeological and Historical Sources; Settlement and Its Development; Hunting.
- The Written Sources8 Tales of the Iron Bloomery; The Technological Concept and Coordinated Activity; Methods in the Borderland; The Hedmark Tradition in Time and Space; Specialized Work; Proto-industrialized Bloomery Ironmaking-the Unknown Economy of Østerdalen; De-industrialization-the Collapse of the Tradition; 9 The Economic Role of Iron in an Inter-regional Perspective; Appendices; Appendix Ia: Bloomery sites excavated in the Gråfjell area
- data and interpretation; Appendix Ib: Excluded bloomery sites, not archaeologically investigated.