RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Zavřel, Jan
A1 Havrda, Jan
A1 Malý, Karel
A1 Kočárová, Romana
T1 Archaeological Evidence of Medieval Metallurgical Activities in Prague's Clementinum - Production and Processing of Bronze, Brass and Silver
JF Staletá Praha
YR 2024
VO 39
IS 2
SP 2
OP 30
DO 10.56112/sp.2023.2.01
UL https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202302-0001.php
AB The article focuses on documentation of medieval production technologies, especially on the metallurgy of precious and non-ferrous metals or their alloys (silver, bronze and brass). Geochemical analysis was carried out using the EDS-SEM method. Under focus are furnaces and other finds from the Clementinum area near the western edge of Prague's Old Town; reviewed are also the small finds discovered in the vicinity. The local finds of production features (furnaces) or small remains after their destruction (fragments from the walls of the furnaces) and also artefacts belonging to other types of archaeometallurgical finds (lumps and drops of non-ferrous metal alloys, slag, touchstones, technical ceramics, crucible) expand the knowledge of specialized production activities in Prague during the 12th and the 13th century.