Defining workshop practices in high-quality 1st century AD Roman bronze artefacts

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Two intact first century AD Romano-British tombs containing rich assemblages of grave offerings were excavated in 2007 by Oxford Archaeology near a section of the A2 route in Kent. We propose to analyse five of the copper alloy (bronze and brass) objects from the excavation by neutron diffraction on ENGIN-X. Stylistic parallels to these artefacts are known from the site of Pompeii. The proposed ENGIN-X work will contribute to the technical study of the A2 Kent objects, which aims to define workshop practices (e.g. what alloys are used, how they are cast and finished, how the components are joined). A comparison will be made with the Pompeii artefacts and other similar previously published bronze vessels of the 1st century BC to 1st century AD, in a broader discussion of metalworking ¿standard practices¿ in the Roman world. We ask for 4 days on ENGIN-X.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24070863
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24070863
Provenance
Creator Dr Winfried Kockelmann; Dr Evelyne Godfrey
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-02-21T12:48:02Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-08-03T07:42:52Z