09-03-2009, 06:24 PM
Tin in its own right is a material prone to fairly rapid corrosion, so the lack of tin objects in the archeological database could also be attributed to the fact that few artifacts made it through time but crumbled to powder. However, secondary tinning of copper objects is well known. Tin is a wonderfull metal for casting and in later times was very desirable, why would/could this not have been true in Roman times, one wonders. Still, for lack of evidence, this is one for much more research, it would seem.
