Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium (1850)
Buckman, James, 1816-1884, Newmarch, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1824-1903 · London, G. Bell; Cirencester, Baily and Jones · leaf 153
rores with comparative ease, and though they are both of them soft metalsin the separate state, yet tliey can be mixed in such proportions as to be ashard as steel. But the great reason why this compound was employed insuch varieties of work seems to be, that, though the resulting compoundwas… … 32. Handle of a Stcwpan. • The figures illustrating this subject are all of the -actual size. WOEKS IN METAL. 103 So general was the use of the mixed metals, copper and tin, that we findthe culinary vessels of the Romans were made almost entirely of theresultant bronze. The engraving (32)…
Art, Roman · Cirencester (England) -- Antiquities, Roman
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