Iron Age metallurgy at Salūt (Sultanate of Oman): a preliminary note

Abstract

Extensive excavations at the Iron Age site of Salūt, near Bisyā in central Oman, revealed a complex architecture, allowing the \nreconstruction of a long history of building activities and rearrangements. \nAmong the discovered structures, none can clearly be associated to metal production, although a small vertical furnace could be \ntentatively interpreted as a metallurgical structure, possibly used for small-scale copper/bronze remelting. The presence of charcoalrich \ndeposits, metal scraps, and stored broken objects in its vicinity also points in this direction. A selection of these items, together \nwith some plano-convex ingots from other contexts within the site, has been analysed and the preliminary results are outlined here. \nThe significance of this work is underlined by the current dearth of data on Iron Age metallurgy in the Oman peninsula, \ncompared to comprehensive studies of Bronze Age metal production, when the land of Magan was widely renowned for its wealth \nof copper ores.

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