METALLURGICAL ANALYSES OF SIX IRON KNIVES FROM HAMWIH, SOUTHAMPTON.
Author(s): J G McDonnell
Six Anglo-Saxon iron knives from the excavations at Six Dials, Southampton were studied metallurgically. Five knives had butt welded steel cutting edges, the sixth had no steel edge. The quality of manufacture was high,and phosphoric iron was less abundant as compared with the analysis of the Viking Age knives from Coppergate, York.
- Report Number:
- 93/1987
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 13
- Keywords:
- Iron Technology