Geoff Egan

Abstract

Metalworking evidence in London includes plant, ingots, clay moulds and wasters for dress accessories apparently from a copper-alloy foundry probably of the early 13th century. There is a variety of seemingly usable copper-alloy accessories discarded at the waterfront, still joined from casting and presumably from a single workshop of the 14th century, and a dump of clay moulds and
crucibles for producing candlesticks in the 17th century. Further manufacturing waste provides details of the processes of working sheet copper alloy, and casting various lead/tin items, and there are also limited hints of precious-metal industries and enamelling in the latemedieval period and the 16th century.

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Some Archaeological Evidence f or Metalworking in London c.1050 AD - c.1700 AD. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 30(2), 83-94. https://www.hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/417
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