Early Furnace Technology

The following illustrations are from various papers in: Craddock, P.T. and Hughes, M.J., Eds. (1985). Furnaces and smelting technology in antiquity. British Museum Occasional Paper 48, London, England.

A domed type furnace with a re-heating hearth at a Romano-British archaeological site. (pg. 163).

(pg. 149).

(pg. 182).

(pg. 19).

This schema of a crucible shaped copper-smelting furnace is from a copper-bronze age site in the Aravalli Hill site of India.  (pg. 65).

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