GRST 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Oxhide, Oxhide Ingot, Cupellation

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 321
• Professor: Lesley Bolton

Document Summary

Mining and metals: mining (flint, clay, and metal ores, metals, metallurgy (smelting, iron working, metal working (casting, fine metalworking) Flint mine: shaft: the vertical component of the mine, whatever you dig down, gallery: the horizontal component that you dig outwards from the inside of your tunnel. Tools used in flint mining: stone, timber, bone, antler. In the iron age they might be using iron tools of course but the other materials were still used. Flint and clay were the two things that were mined in the bronze age. Copper was also used in the bronze age, but likely surface finds of the metal. Metal ore rock that contains, amongst other things, the metal or a metal compound that has to be processed to get the metal out. Mines were at risk for flooding too if you had dug down far enough to get below the water table.