April
11
/ 2013
In 1964 near Tobruk in Libya an old bronze battering ram belonging to a 2000 old ship was discovered. The artefact is known as Belgammel Ram. What is interesting about the ram is its composition. At a weight of 20kg an alloy object like this would have been difficult to be made and until now we didn’t know how. Experts analysed the mixture of the alloy which was found to be 87% of copper, 6% of tin and 7% of lead, showing that the Ram was cast as one piece. Wood found on the Belgammel Ram was carbon dated to be of about 100BC to 100AD. It is interesting to know that this specific alloy doesn’t suffer from a corrosion
