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Fig. 3

From: Exactly how free? Constrained choices and product ranges of medieval copper-alloy objects found between the Meuse and Loire rivers (9th–16th centuries CE)

Fig. 3

Above, binary diagrams plotting the contents of zinc/tin and zinc/lead, according to the shaping technique. The boundaries between the different alloy nomenclatures are reported depending on the authors (Bayley 1991, Bourgarit Thomas 2012 and Castelle et al. 2020; below, histograms showing the distribution of copper, tin, zinc and lead contents, according to the shaping technique, n = 255 (analyses of cast objects) and 164 (analyses of hammered objects, including spoons)

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