The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 5

Edited by David Saunders

Book cover: The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 5

Extent: 112 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Subjects: Art & Art History, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2011)

ISBN: 9781904982678

8.27 x 11.65 inches

Price: $70.00

In stock

This bulletin, is part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum.


This bulletin, is part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum.

Foreword

David Saunders

Beauty and belief: the endangered tradition of Omani silver jewellery

Aude Mongiatti, Fahmida Suleman and Nigel Meeks

Evidence for shield construction from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk

Hayley Bullock, Alexandra Baldwin, Jamie Hood, Chris Fern, Caroline Cartwright, Janet Lang and Quanyu Wang

The Noli me Tangere: study and conservation of a Cretan icon

Lynne Harrison, Janet Ambers, Rebecca Stacey, Caroline Cartwright and Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Grimes Graves revisited: a new light on chalk 'lamps'

Satoko Tanimoto, Rebecca Stacey, Gillian Varndell and Tracey Sweek

Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification

Caroline Cartwright, Lin Rosa SpaabAek and Marie Svoboda

A Chinese bronze gui vessel: genuine Western Zhou object or fake?

Quanyu Wang, Sascha Priewe, Kwang-tzuu Chen and Susan La Niece

Investigating technological and environmental evidence from plant remains and molluscs in cuneiform tablets

Caroline Cartwright and Jon Taylor

Defence and decoration: new findings on a late fourteenth-century 'kettle-hat' helmet found in London

Jamie Hood, Joanne Dyer, Janet Lang and Janet Ambers

Assessing the potential of historic archaeological collections: a pilot study of the British Museum's Swiss lake dwelling textiles

Catherine Higgitt, Susanna Harris, Caroline Cartwright and Pippa Cruickshank

The history and conservation of the papyrus of Tuy

John Taylor, Bridget Leach and Helen Sharp,

Foreword

David Saunders

Beauty and belief: the endangered tradition of Omani silver jewellery

Aude Mongiatti, Fahmida Suleman and Nigel Meeks

Evidence for shield construction from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk

Hayley Bullock, Alexandra Baldwin, Jamie Hood, Chris Fern, Caroline Cartwright, Janet Lang and Quanyu Wang

The Noli me Tangere: study and conservation of a Cretan icon

Lynne Harrison, Janet Ambers, Rebecca Stacey, Caroline Cartwright and Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Grimes Graves revisited: a new light on chalk ‘lamps’

Satoko Tanimoto, Rebecca Stacey, Gillian Varndell and Tracey Sweek

Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification

Caroline Cartwright, Lin Rosa Spaabæk and Marie Svoboda

A Chinese bronze gui vessel: genuine Western Zhou object or fake?

Quanyu Wang, Sascha Priewe, Kwang-tzuu Chen and Susan La Niece

Investigating technological and environmental evidence from plant remains and molluscs in cuneiform tablets

Caroline Cartwright and Jon Taylor

Defence and decoration: new findings on a late fourteenth-century ‘kettle-hat’ helmet found in London

Jamie Hood, Joanne Dyer, Janet Lang and Janet Ambers

Assessing the potential of historic archaeological collections: a pilot study of the British Museum’s Swiss lake dwelling textiles

Catherine Higgitt, Susanna Harris, Caroline Cartwright and Pippa Cruickshank

The history and conservation of the papyrus of Tuy

John Taylor, Bridget Leach and Helen Sharp

  • Edited by David Saunders