Early medieval origins of iron mining and settlement in central Sweden: multiproxy analysis of sediment and peat records from the Norberg mining district

Bindler, Richard; Segerström, Ulf; Pettersson-Jensen, Ing-Marie; Berg, Anna; Hansson, Sophia V.; Holmström, Harald; Olsson, Karin; Renberg, Ingemar

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“…Wild and Eastwood (1992) or identifying prehistoric copper contamination (Jenkins 2001) and copper and lead mining (Mighall et al 2009) and historic iron mining (Bindler et al 2011). Indeed, many of the papers investigating archaeological geochemistry relate to the identification of metalworking residues from antiquity, in both catchment wide (temporal) studies (Thorndycroft et al 1999;Grattan et al 2013) and localised site specific spatial scales (e.g.…”

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Geochemical survey and metalworking: analysis of chemical residues derived from experimental non-ferrous metallurgical processes in a reconstructed roundhouse

Carey

Wickstead

Juleff

et al. 2014

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Geochemical survey and metalworking: analysis of chemical residues derived from experimental nonferrous metallurgical processes in a reconstructed roundhouse, Journal of Archaeological Science (2014Science ( ), doi: 10.1016Science ( /j.jas.2014 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT *principle author for correspondenceAbstract: Geochemical survey is becoming a more frequently applied tool for site specific archaeological investigation. It has the potential to integrate site prospection and excavation data with post excavation artefact analysis, unifying two stages of the archaeological process. In the field of archaeometallurgy this is particularly relevant as sites of metalworking are liable to produce high geochemical loadings, related to the manufacture of metal goods and associated waste products such as slags. This paper describes the geochemical survey of an 'experiential' metalworking area within a reconstructed roundhouse, identifying geochemical enhancements associated with bronze and lead working. The geochemical survey of the roundhouse clearly defines areas of metalworking that can be related to recollected episodes of metalworking and quantifies the spatial distribution and absolute geochemical loadings from this activity. Consideration is given to how such geochemical enhancements should be archaeologically interpreted and whether geochemistry should be viewed as a micro-artefact and dealt with in a context specific way. It is suggested that geochemical survey can play an important role in defining evidence of metallurgy in archaeological investigations, particularly where such evidence remains elusive, e.g. the British Bronze Age.Keywords: metallurgy, geochemistry, metal pollution, spatial survey, GIS IntroductionGeochemical survey is becoming a more widely practised technique within archaeological research (Oonk et al. 2009a;Wilson 2009), which has the potential to identify evidence of anthropogenic activity that is otherwise invisible to conventional archaeological methods, i.e. the hidden site, context or landscape (Heron 2001). Despite this potential, geochemical survey has yet to establish itself as a technique that can consistently offer results demonstrably linked to human activities within the archaeological record (Oonk et al. 2009b), partly due to the difficulty in interpreting multifaceted geochemical data; "because of the complexity of site use history and the effects of post depositional processes" (Wilson et al. 2008). Archaeological geochemical survey has been applied on a variety of scales, ranging M A N ...

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Geochemical survey and metalworking: analysis of chemical residues derived from experimental non-ferrous metallurgical processes in a reconstructed roundhouse

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Juleff

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…There are many studies focusing on multi-element analyses bringing similar results (Bindler et al 2011;Bing et al 2011;Costa 2011;Davidson et al 2007;Entwistle et al 1998Entwistle et al , 2000Facchinelli et al 2001;Horák, Hejcman 2016a;2016b;Sollito et al 2010;Walkington 2010;Wilson et al 2009). It was also shown that it is highly suitable to work more with the multivariate analyses results rather than with the original concentrations, or the transformed concentrations, i.e.…”

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“…Facchinelli et al 2001) than in the archaeological literature, where the analysis of separate elements prevails (e.g. Bindler et al 2011;Wilson et al 2005), although in some cases multivariate analyses are being used to find the connections (Entwistle et al 1998;Wilson et al 2008Wilson et al , 2009). There should also be more research of soils in the areas of abandoned villages, not only in general gradients or in regular grids, but also with respect to different possessions.…”

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Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

Horák¹,

Klír²

2017

IANSA

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“…In the same area, but looking at the whole Holocene, Hammarlund et al (2008) used the Fe, Pb and Zn sediment records to link to the Cu and Fe mining of region, and to long transported Pb. Bindler et al (2011b) focused more specifically on the 1000 year history of Swedish Fe working using lake sediments. The detailed study at Lake Verkasjön, farther south in Sweden (Bäckstrom et al 2006), has been addressed above.…”

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Lacustrine Archives of Metals from Mining and Other Industrial Activities—A Geochemical Approach

Boyle

Chiverrell

Schillereff

2015

Environmental Contaminants

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Since the first studies reporting recent stratigraphic changes of metal concentration in lake sediments, many hundreds of studies have been published in the peer-reviewed literature. It is an impossible task to do justice to all of these works here; instead we: (1) examine recent methodological advances and place these in the context of the historical development of the discipline; and (2) explore the various purposes to which such methods have been applied. Such a historical emphasis may appear in conflict with the needs of a review of new approaches; however, this is not in fact the case for two main reasons. First, most new advances supplement rather than replace traditional methods, such that a thorough understanding of the practical and theoretical issues impacting these is still essential for reliable interpretation of palaeolimnological data. Second, while many of the new methods purport to circumvent problems, they achieve this only under favourable conditions, not dissimilar to the conditions that influence the earlier methods, so the same lesson must be learned anyway. Consequently, we use this historical narrative to address the fundamentals of the discipline.The chapter comprises two main parts; methodology and applications. The methodological section has three subsections: (1) Introduction to processes controlling natural variations in metal fluxes and concentrations in lake sediments; (2) Measurement of metal concentrations in sediments; (3) Calculation of enrichment or fluxes from sediment metal concentration data.There are four main applications subsections focusing on the value of lake sediment records of metals derived from mining or industry. They are: (1) Geochronological markers in sediments providing chronology for other research goals; (2) Lake sediment heavy metal records to quantify pollution loading histories, or to

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Early medieval origins of iron mining and settlement in central Sweden: multiproxy analysis of sediment and peat records from the Norberg mining district

Cited by 38 publications

References 31 publications

Geochemical survey and metalworking: analysis of chemical residues derived from experimental non-ferrous metallurgical processes in a reconstructed roundhouse

Geochemical survey and metalworking: analysis of chemical residues derived from experimental non-ferrous metallurgical processes in a reconstructed roundhouse

Pedogenesis, Pedochemistry and the Functional Structure of the Waldhufendorf Field System of the Deserted Medieval Village Spindelbach, the Czech Republic

Lacustrine Archives of Metals from Mining and Other Industrial Activities—A Geochemical Approach

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