The Editors

Abstract

Foundation of an Institute for Archaeometallurgy in Bochum.


EXCAVATIONS


A copper smelting site at Almyras near Alambra, Cyprus (Dr S Swiny)


Recent Excavations of Bloomery Furnaces in the Somogy County, Hungary (J Gömöri, Sopran)


A Medieval Metal Workshop Excavated at Trondheim, Norway (A Espelund, Trondheim)


Ancient Smelting Furnaces found at Les Martys, Montaigne Noire Area, Southern France (H Cleere, London)


Medieval Mines and Smelting Furnace at Köphäza, Hungary (J Gömöri, Sopran)


SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY


Reconnaissances and survey: Ancient and Medieval Iron Smelting on the Island of Elba (A Coretti, Pisa)


Early Bloomery Slags on the Coast of Tuscany (R Francovich, Siena)


METALLOGRAPHY


Further Pattern-welded Swords from Illerup and Nydam (R Thomsen, Varde)


EXPERIMENTS


Smelting of Iron and Forging of Japanese Swords at the Musee Du Fer, Nancy, France


Experimental Iron Smelting and Smithing Documented by the Departement of Prehistory of Zürich University, Switzerland (Marianne Senn-Luder, W. Fasnacht, Zurich.)


Recent Finds from Switzerland Concerning the Roman Iron Trade (C Doswald, Brugg)


The Problem of the Iron Age in the Phillipines (E Z Dizon, Manila)


CONFERENCES


The International Symposium "Archaeometallurgy of Iron: From Bloom to Knife" Kielce-Ameliöwka, Poland (R Pleiner, Prague)


RESEARCH ACTIVITY IN FRANCE


Regional research and reconnaissance, Ancient and Early Mining and Bloomery Production in Eastern France: Recent Results 1981-1989 (M Mangin, Besancon)


plus shorter items of Institutional, publication and other news

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News and Notes. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 24(1), 53-58. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/594
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