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- Title
STUDY OF INVESTMENT CASTING TECHNOLOGY FROM BRONZE AGE. CASTING WORKSHOP IN GRZYBIANY (SOUTHWEST POLAND).
- Authors
GARBACZ-KLEMPKA, A.; SUCHY, J. S.; KWAK, Z.; TOKARSKI, T.; KLEMPKA, R.; STOLARCZYK, T.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
INVESTMENT casting; BRONZE Age; X-ray fluorescence; SCANNING electron microscopy; ENERGY dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
- Publication
Archives of Metallurgy & Materials, 2018, Vol 63, Issue 2, p615
- ISSN
1733-3490
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24425/122385