Peter Bray

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring together the sometimes-diverging views of several research groups on these topics in an attempt to find common ground and set out the major directions of the debate, for the benefit of future research.

TL;DR: The metal composition of bronze alloys has been routinely examined as a means of inferring the source of the ore as discussed by the authors. But bronze is recycled, and the quantity of some components, such as arsenic, is depleted every time the alloy is melted down.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical model of metal flow is proposed, where objects are seen as snapshots of a wider metal stream; their final scientific characterisation including echoes of their previous forms and contexts.

TL;DR: The metal composition of bronze alloys has been routinely examined as a means of inferring the source of the ore as mentioned in this paper. But bronze is recycled, and the quantity of some components, such as arsenic, is depleted every time the alloy is melted down.

TL;DR: A large database of chemical analyses of British copper alloys dating from the late Iron Age to the early medieval period demonstrates the potential of their approach; it shows that significant and measureable changes occur in metal circulation at the beginning of the first century AD and in the early Saxon period.