The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 3

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

Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare Tahitian canoe sail

Tara Hiquily, Jenny Newell, Monique Pullan, Nicole Rode and Arianna Bernucci

Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops

Susan La Niece, Stefan Rohrs, Dora Thornton and Antony Simpson

Egyptian stelae from Malta

Jeremy Young, Marcel Maree, Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton

Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other comparable coins

Gareth Williams and Michael Cowell

Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive examination of two jars from Burghley House

Michela Spataro, Nigel Meeks, Mavis Bimson, Aileen Dawson and Janet Ambers

The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from ancient Mexico

Margaret Sax and Nigel Meeks

Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade horse

Giovanni Verri, Paul Collins, Janet Ambers, Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson

A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork

Pippa Cruickshank, Vincent Daniels and Jonathan King

Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion

Quanyu Wang, He Huang and Fleur Shearman

An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis

Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson

Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean

Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villing

Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages

Maureen Mellor and Denise Ling

The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood identification and conservation challenges

Caroline Cartwright, Clare Ward, Jonathan Tubb and Helene Delaunay,

Foreword

David Saunders

Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare Tahitian canoe sail

Tara Hiquily, Jenny Newell, Monique Pullan, Nicole Rode and Arianna Bernucci

Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops

Susan La Niece, Stefan Rohrs, Dora Thornton and Antony Simpson

Egyptian stelae from Malta

Jeremy Young, Marcel Maree, Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton

Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other comparable coins

Gareth Williams and Michael Cowell

Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive examination of two jars from Burghley House

Michela Spataro, Nigel Meeks, Mavis Bimson, Aileen Dawson and Janet Ambers

The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from ancient Mexico

Margaret Sax and Nigel Meeks

Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade horse

Giovanni Verri, Paul Collins, Janet Ambers, Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson

A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork

Pippa Cruickshank, Vincent Daniels and Jonathan King

Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion

Quanyu Wang, He Huang and Fleur Shearman

An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis

Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson

Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean

Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villing

Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages

Maureen Mellor and Denise Ling

The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood identification and conservation challenges

Caroline Cartwright, Clare Ward, Jonathan Tubb and Helene Delaunay

• Edited by David Saunders