Assertion: chrysoberyl's use | /r/CapableOf | have declined in western europe
Facets:
value: by about 1000 brass artefacts
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by about 1000 brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of calamine brass in Germany and The Low Countries, areas rich in calamine ore.