Slag-tempered pottery – a special type of ceramic tempering – has so far only been found in the Alpine region during the Bronze and Iron Age (2nd and 1st millennium BC). Slag, a by-product of copper smelting, is ground into small pieces and…
The remains of the extraction of alluvial and eluvial cassiterite by placer mining in the Ore Mountains have been identified by LIDAR data and analysed by mining archaeologists at the Archaeological Heritage Office Saxony (LfA). High-resolu…
Ore mining in solid rock has long been the focus of intensive archaeological research in Germany (Bartels and Slotta, 2012; Kommission Montanarchäologie des VLA, 2022). In contrast, the extraction of heavy minerals from alluvial and eluvial…
The research conducted by Schröder, et al. and presented here is based on a survey of the tin streaming relics in the Ore Mountains of Saxony. For the first time, it verifies observations on the morphology, structure, and typification of ti…