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Historical Archive: Metals


Aluminum


Brass, Bronze, Copper, and Copper alloy
through undated Roman; 1st-4th c. CE and undated early Anglo-Saxon; 5th-7th c.; 8th-10th c.; 11th-12th c.; 13th c.-14th c. and undifferentiated 15th c.; dated within 15th c.-present


Gold and Electrum through the 5th c.; 6th to 8th c.;
9th to 11th c.; 12th to 19th c.; 1900 to present


Iron and Steel


Lead and Lead alloy


Platinum


Silver and Silver gilt through 6th c. and undated Merovingian/Anglo-Saxon, 7th through 9th c., 10th c. to c.1250 including undifferentiated 13th,
13th c.-1580s, c.1590 to present


Tin and tin alloy (pewter). See also lead alloy.


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Ring: platinum, diamonds, and sapphires, dated 1933, p.c.
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seal matrix of Bishop Aethelwald, cast copper alloy, 9th c., BM 1822,1214.1
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reliquary apple, 14th c. France, silver, niello, and gilt, Louvre OA 6712
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solidus of Honorius, gold, 384-423, DO