Metal Objects from the Jewish Quarter of Lorca Castle (Murcia, Spain): Insights into the Metal Archaeology of Medieval Iberia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS AN IN-DEPTH EXAMINATION of metal artefacts and their production in the region of Murcia (Spain) during the Late Middle Ages. The primary research aim is to investigate these objects within their archaeological context, as well as the spatial distribution of the workshops, and the role of specialised artisans within the broader socio-economic landscape. The study approaches the production of the metal objects from an historical-archaeological perspective, focusing on two urban contexts: the city of Murcia, as the kingdom’s capital, and the town of Lorca, located in a frontier zone of Castilian territory. Particular attention is given to the analysis of metal artefacts recovered from a context of exceptional archaeological value: the late-medieval Jewish quarter of Lorca Castle (14th–15th centuries). Emphasis is placed on the spatial distribution, typology, and functionality of artefacts within domestic settings, specifically household XV, with the aim of identifying widespread productions and defining the composition and characteristics of metal assemblages in late-medieval households.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".