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I suspect a few people I know would be interested in this.
De Re Metallica: The Uses of Metal in the Middle Ages
ed by Robert Bork, Scott Montgomery, Carol Neuman De Vegvar, Ellen Shortell, Steven Walton.

I noticed it when googling for the following title on Iron smelting*
'Ore, Fire, Hammer, Sickle: Iron Production in Viking Age and Early Medieval Iceland' by Kevin Smith via a mention here, but it appears to be a 23 essay collection on a range of subjects related to metals. Apparently La Trobe Uni (Bundoora Campus, Borchardt Library) has a copy**.

Going for about $100 US on Amazon though. Ditto though its publisher (Ashgate). Though if you wish to drool more, check out their recent publishing catalogues. The Medieval Studies catalogue for 2007 (pdf, 960kB) has some very nice sounding, very expensive conference proceedings and books***.

* Yes, I chase up odd stuff, some of which Z is probably more interested than I but still...
** Another reason to go there, given the Viking Rus book pearl linked to.
*** Including one on "Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics" by (or ed) J. L. Mancha (2006) and one in "The Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding" by (or ed) J. A. Szirmai (2007) and ...

Edit: And Vic Uni library here has a copy (TS225.2 G3 D278). They also have a copy of the translation of the 1556 latin manuscript on the same subject of that name too (TN144 A278 D). Anyone know anyone with Victoria University library borrowing access?

A while back I linked to an archeological for sale site with really cool finds. Of course it was bookmarked at work, not home, and I can't quite be arsed digging out the harddrive to find it. But while searching LJ entries for it, I did find the Council for British Archeology publications list which includes a large collection of online issues (linked to but not explored back here).
So far fun stuff has included:
Anglo-Saxon pottery: a symposium (1959)
Viking Age York and the North (1978) - especially "Industry and commerce in Anglo-Scandinavian York
by Arthur MacGregor(pp 37-57)". Annoying the articles come in small pdf sections so you need to download several for the full article, but worth it.

Their online library catalogue is a good point to start poking...

They also have databases such as:
Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire, 1998-2000 J.D. Richards, 2004
with the article available here.

Last ditch attempt to converge M297040, so while I wait...
( Tablet weaving links etc on double facing and brocade )