Just as a pointer...
Chris, the text in PDF you linked is not an article from Verhoeven and Pendray, but an extract (only the main text, without the figures, nor the frontpage, foreword and acknowledgements) of a book written by a couple of Bangalore (India) researchers, Dr. Sharada Srinivasan and Prof. Srinivasa Ranganathan, from the National Institute of Advanced Studies and the Indian Institute of Science, respectively. I think these institutions acted as the publishers, also. The title of this work is
"India's Legendary Wootz Steel: An Advanced Material of the Ancient World". It was commissioned by the company Tata Steel, and came out in 2004. The rest of the book can also be found in the same page (which is Prof. Ranganathan's, by the way, would anyone be concerned about Intellectual Property issues). The first pages are
HERE, and the figures are
HERE.
Good discussion, Gentlemen
