“…Medieval copper metallurgy in Western Europe has long been studied at an analytical level through the sole perspective of museum collections, thus concentrating mostly on ecclesiastical ornaments (Werner, 1982;Oddy et al, 1986;De Ruette, 1996), or specific items such as statuary (Riederer, 1980(Riederer, , 1983(Riederer, , 1985Laub, 1993;Hachenberg, 2006), aquamaniles, funeral tabs, cannons, bells or monumental castings (Cameron, 1974;Tylecote, 1976;Giot and Monnier, 1978;Forshell, 1984;Drescher, 1992;Bayley et al, 1993;Neri, 2004;Giannichedda et al, 2005;Dandridge, 2006;Bellendorf, 2007). Though very valuable, the information supplied by these analytical studies has only been concerned with a minor part of medieval copper production, while omitting all aspects of the production of day-to-day domestic items.…”