Peebles Hoard features tin-enriched bronze – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/74399
"This likely suggests that a rarely observed technique was used in the creation of the Peebles Hoard. Rather than tin plating or tin dipping, this probably represents a deliberate surface enrichment of the bronze where the tin was drawn to the surface. It is a remarkable and rarely observed process from Bronze Age Britain that requires more work to understand."
The mystery of the “Trewhiddle ingot”: evidence of the smelting of tungsten in Cornwall before tungsten was first isolated and characterized - in fact, before such smelting was thought to have been technically possible?
Or just weird slag?
And what does it all have to do with Baron Munchausen?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series6/tungsten.shtml
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475875/1/The_Trewhiddle_tungsten_bloom_Rehren_200.pdf
Hunter-Gatherer Metallurgy In The Early Iron Age Of Northern Fennoscandia Was Integrated And Advanced - Ancient Pages
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/08/15/hunter-gatherer-metallurgy/
Groundbreaking and extensive evidence shows that iron technology was integrated and advanced in hunter-gatherer societies in Northern Fennoscandia during the pre-Roman Iron Age (c. 200–50 BC). Smelting processes at high temperatures had been mastered, including using extreme temperatures in the furnaces.
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