Study of Investment Casting Technology from Bronze Age. Casting Workshop in Grzybiany (Southwest Poland)

• Autorzy: Garbacz-Klempka A. , Suchy J. S. , Kwak Z. , Tokarski T. , Klempka R. , Stolarczyk T.

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DOI

10.24425/122385

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Investment casting technology that utilizes lost-wax casting is one of the most-important achievements of ancient society. In Lower Silesia, Poland (Grzybiany, Legnica county), a 7-6 BC casting workshop was discovered with numerous artifacts, confirming the existence of the manufacturing process of metal ornaments using ceramic molds. The paper presents the research of molds and casts from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Microscopic analyses of the casting molds were performed, along with radiographic and chemical composition tests of the artifacts (the latter employing the use of the X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy method). The clustering method was used for alloy classification. The microstructure was analyzed by means of Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy. Conclusions from the research were utilized in further experiments.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

archeometallurgy; copper alloys; investment casting technology; lost wax casting; x-ray spectroscopy

• Wydawca: Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences ; Committee of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Archives of Metallurgy and Materials
• Rocznik: 2018
• Tom: Vol. 63, iss. 2
• Strony: 615--624
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 33 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Garbacz-Klempka A.

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Historical Layers Research Centre, Reymonta 23 Str., 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Suchy J. S.

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Historical Layers Research Centre, Reymonta 23 Str., 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Kwak Z.

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Historical Layers Research Centre, Reymonta 23 Str., 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Tokarski T.

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology, Mickiewicza 30 Ave., 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Klempka R.

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Mickiewicza 30 Ave., 30-059 Krakow, Poland

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Stolarczyk T.

• Copper Museum, Partyzantow 3 Str., 59-220 Legnica, Poland

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2018).