Catalogue of metallographic examinations of iron objects from medieval sites

The article introduces the catalogue, which has been prepared in the Laboratories of conservation CAS Prague and which should help archaeometallurgists and archaeologists gain a basic orientation in the archaeometallurgical research into Bohemian and Moravian medieval iron objects that has been carried out to date. Since a number of such metallographic examinations have already been published it was decided above all to insert sites and objects from the 13th to 15th centuries in the first part of the catalogue. The metallography of objects from the medieval village of Pfaffenschlag is shown here as example of how the single sites are treated there