Investigation of a 16th-century gun powder chamber from the Tudor warship Mary Rose
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Nov 11, 2021
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Work on the gun powder (breech) section of a wrought-iron port piece has provided information about the manufacturing process, as well as the structure and properties of the iron used.
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Walker R 1982, ‘The corrosion and presentation of iron antiques’, Journal of Chemical Education 59, 943–7.
Walker R 1996, ‘Stabilisation of marine iron artefacts’, British Corrosion Journal 31, 69–71.
Walker R 2002, ‘The production, microstructure and properties of wrought iron’ Journal of Chemical Education 79(4), 443–7.
Walker R and Hildred A 2000, ‘Manufacture and corrosion of lead shot from the flagship Mary Rose’, Studies in Conservation 45, 217–25.
Wright J H 1972, ‘Metallurgical examination of a Roman iron beam from Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire’, Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgical Group 6, 24–7.
Chilton J P and Evans U R 1955, ‘The corrosion resistance of wrought iron’, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 181, 113–22.
Hall N 1998, ‘Building and firing a replica Mary Rose port piece’, Royal Armouries Yearbook 3, 57–66
Hildred A 1988, ‘The King’s Ship: a study in strategic ordnance’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 17(1), 55.
Maddin R, Muhly J D and Wheeler T S 1977, ‘How the Iron Age began’, Scientific American 237(4), 122–31.
Oddy W A 1975, ‘Procedures for the conservation of cast and wrought iron found on the seabed’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration 4(2), 367–70.
Pomp A and Spies F 1940, ‘Examination of a wrought-iron cannon of the fifteenth century’ Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Eisenforschungen Dusseldorf 22, 1–8.
Simmonds J J III 1992, ‘Early modern wrought-iron artillery: Macroanalyses of instruments of enforcement’, Materials Characterisation 29(2), 129–138.
Smith R D 1993, ‘Port pieces: The use of wrought-iron guns in the sixteenth century’, Journal of the Ordnance Society 5, 1–10.
Smith R D 2000, ‘The technology of wrought-iron artillery’, Royal Armouries Yearbook 5, 68–79.
Smith R D and Brown R R 1989 Bombards: Mons Meg and her Sisters (London, Royal Armouries Monograph 1).
Teesdale E B 1991, Gunfounding in the Weald in the sixteenth century (London, Royal Armouries Monograph 2).
Thewlis J (ed) 1951, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics Vol 1 (Oxford).
Vanden Hazel B J 1989, ‘The conservation of iron from shipwrecks’, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Bulletin 82, No 929, 81–6.
Walker R 1982, ‘The corrosion and presentation of iron antiques’, Journal of Chemical Education 59, 943–7.
Walker R 1996, ‘Stabilisation of marine iron artefacts’, British Corrosion Journal 31, 69–71.
Walker R 2002, ‘The production, microstructure and properties of wrought iron’ Journal of Chemical Education 79(4), 443–7.
Walker R and Hildred A 2000, ‘Manufacture and corrosion of lead shot from the flagship Mary Rose’, Studies in Conservation 45, 217–25.
Wright J H 1972, ‘Metallurgical examination of a Roman iron beam from Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire’, Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgical Group 6, 24–7.
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Investigation of a 16th-century gun powder chamber from the Tudor warship Mary Rose. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 43(1), 47-56. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/180
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Investigation of a 16th-century gun powder chamber from the Tudor warship Mary Rose. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 43(1), 47-56. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/180