Technological study of nuragic bronze samples (Sardinia, Italy)

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The production of Nuragic Bronze Figurines represents a unique opportunity to provide key information not only about the iconography but also the metal production and casting techniques of such a class of objects. The period of their production is principally Early Iron Age (XI-VII century BC) in Sardinia, Italy. We propose to analyse 4 archaeological artefacts (a navicella and 3 knives) and 6 small foundry residuals by using neutron diffraction. The data obtained through this technique will give us detailed information about the phase composition of the metal matrix and the non metallic phases present, which originate from metal smelting or mineralization. Moreover, the microstructural analysis performed on the metal phase will lead to a better comprehension of the metallurgical processes through the determination of texture, grain size and residual strain density and distribution.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.53843050
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/53843050
Provenance
Creator Dr Antonella Scherillo; Dr Antonio Brunetti; Dr Francesco Grazzi; Dr Gianfranca Salis; Dr Sergio Orru
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 2014-06-19T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-06-25T23:00:00Z