John lutzon
1/14/2024 7:44:50 PM |
Ha, the only problem I have with meteorites is keeping up on some of my irons' oxidation. Here's a good read from others, and others,-- From the Very beginning of the Bronze Age, the earliest known "Worked" Iron is 3200BC. Bronze Age artifacts used Meteoric Iron. |
Anne Black
1/14/2024 7:09:02 PM |
John, a problem here. Bronze is made of copper and tin, no iron, so how could they be meteoritic? Sorry. |
John lutzon
1/14/2024 5:55:19 PM |
Matthias, iirc, there are 129 known bronze age objects made from meteorites and 19 of them were found in King Tut's tomb.
One thing is for sure Anne, whatever Morigen may be/not paired with; that arrowhead is outta this world. !! |
Anne Black
1/14/2024 4:20:53 PM |
Glad you are interested. And yes Matthias there should be a lot more of those in museums, what would early men use as a source of iron before learning to smelt it? And with a XRF they should be easy to detect. But I was so hoping that this one would be a piece of Twannberg. Maybe some artifacts from La Tene will be, it is so close. |
John lutzon
1/14/2024 11:52:37 AM |
According to Beda A. Hofmann's Met-Bull post, it was also not determined if it was cold forged or ground. In either case--I'll take two Ma'am. Thank you |
Twink Monrad
1/14/2024 10:43:28 AM |
so interesting! |
Bernd Pauli
1/14/2024 9:42:15 AM |
Yes, Ben, that's right. The background info (photo 2) says it may come from the Kaalijarv iron, a IAB iron! |
matthias
1/14/2024 9:02:35 AM |
Thank you so much, Anne, for sharing this extraordinary piece here. The subject of artifacts made of meteoritical matter is utmost interesting. |
Ben Fisler
1/14/2024 2:57:40 AM |
The material is notTwannberg. There must be more. Have they found a source yet? |
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