The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 6

Edited by David Saunders

Book cover: The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 6

Extent: 112 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

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

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2012)

ISBN: 9781904982807

8.27 x 11.69 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

The fall and rise of a Roman statue: the Kew Gardens Hermes

Kathryn Oliver, Peter Higgs and Michela Spataro

The Norwich shroud: conservation and investigation of a rare Eighteenth Dynasty shroud

Monique Pullan, Janet Ambers, Caroline Cartwright, John H. Taylor and Faye Kalloniatis

A radioactive shamanic apron with glass disease

Rachel Swift, Andrew S. Meek, Nicole Rode and Anouska Komlosy

Hidden, looted, saved: the scientific research and conservation of a group of Begram ivories from the National Museum of Afghanistan

Emma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Clare Ward, Barbara Wills, St John Simpson and Caroline Cartwright

Hidden history?: examination of two patches on John White's map of 'Virginia'

Janet Ambers, Joanna Russell, David Saunders and Kim Sloan

An economic history of the post-Medieval world in 50 ingots: the British Museum collection of ingots from dated wrecks

Paul Craddock and Duncan Hook

Identification of hairs and fibres in Great Lakes objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries using variable pressure scanning electron microscopy

Caroline Cartwright and Jonathan C.H. King

Investigating and interpreting an early-to-mid sixth-century Frankish style helmet Jamie Hood, Barry Ager, Craig Williams, Susan Harrington and Caroline Cartwright

Archaeobotanical research in a pharaonic town in ancient Nubia

Philippa Ryan, Caroline Cartwright and Neal Spencer,

Foreword

David Saunders

The fall and rise of a Roman statue: the Kew Gardens Hermes

Kathryn Oliver, Peter Higgs and Michela Spataro

The Norwich shroud: conservation and investigation of a rare Eighteenth Dynasty shroud

Monique Pullan, Janet Ambers, Caroline Cartwright, John H. Taylor and Faye Kalloniatis

A radioactive shamanic apron with glass disease

Rachel Swift, Andrew S. Meek, Nicole Rode and Anouska Komlosy

Hidden, looted, saved: the scientific research and conservation of a group of Begram ivories from the National Museum of Afghanistan

Emma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Clare Ward, Barbara Wills, St John Simpson and Caroline Cartwright

Hidden history?: examination of two patches on John White’s map of ‘Virginia’

Janet Ambers, Joanna Russell, David Saunders and Kim Sloan

An economic history of the post-Medieval world in 50 ingots: the British Museum collection of ingots from dated wrecks

Paul Craddock and Duncan Hook

Identification of hairs and fibres in Great Lakes objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries using variable pressure scanning electron microscopy

Caroline Cartwright and Jonathan C.H. King

Investigating and interpreting an early-to-mid sixth-century Frankish style helmet Jamie Hood, Barry Ager, Craig Williams, Susan Harrington and Caroline Cartwright

Archaeobotanical research in a pharaonic town in ancient Nubia

Philippa Ryan, Caroline Cartwright and Neal Spencer

  • Edited by David Saunders