Non invasive characterization through neutron imaging of ancient Indonesian Keris from the Wallace Collection

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The keris is the distinctive weapon of Malaysia and Indonesia. It is found in a variety of forms but, typically, it is an elongated dagger or short sword of slender proportions with a blade of rough pattern-welded texture sharpened on both edges [1].All good Southeast Asian keris are made of two sorts of metal, iron (or steel) and pamor welded together in intricate patterns and subsequently brought out on the polished surface of the blade by etching.Pamor, is the etch-resistant component traditionally used in the blades, and includes a variety of metals.In order to obtain metallurgical information about the composite structure of three keris, we plan to perform a combined analysis of neutron diffraction and neutron imaging which will provide the best combination of morphological and structural details.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90931091
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90931091
Provenance
Creator Dr Winfried Kockelmann; Mr David Edge; Dr John Nandris; Dr Alan Williams; Dr Anna Fedrigo; Dr Francesco Grazzi; Mr Simon Metcalf; Dr Nicla Gelli; Mr Stephen Craig
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-27T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-11-29T15:08:06Z