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. 12 months after publication, the articles of each bulletin are uploaded onto the British Museum website for public viewing.
Foreword
David Saunders
Beauty and belief: the endangered tradition of Omani silver jewellery
Aude Mongiatti, Fahmida Suleman and Nigel Meeks
Evidence for shield construction from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk
Hayley Bullock, Alexandra Baldwin, Jamie Hood, Chris Fern, Caroline Cartwright, Janet Lang and Quanyu Wang
The Noli me Tangere: study and conservation of a Cretan icon
Lynne Harrison, Janet Ambers, Rebecca Stacey, Caroline Cartwright and Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Grimes Graves revisited: a new light on chalk ‘lamps’
Satoko Tanimoto, Rebecca Stacey, Gillian Varndell and Tracey Sweek
Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification
Caroline Cartwright, Lin Rosa Spaabæk and Marie Svoboda
A Chinese bronze gui vessel: genuine Western Zhou object or fake?
Quanyu Wang, Sascha Priewe, Kwang-tzuu Chen and Susan La Niece
Investigating technological and environmental evidence from plant remains and molluscs in cuneiform tablets
Caroline Cartwright and Jon Taylor
Defence and decoration: new findings on a late fourteenth-century ‘kettle-hat’ helmet found in London
Jamie Hood, Joanne Dyer, Janet Lang and Janet Ambers
Assessing the potential of historic archaeological collections: a pilot study of the British Museum’s Swiss lake dwelling textiles
Catherine Higgitt, Susanna Harris, Caroline Cartwright and Pippa Cruickshank
The history and conservation of the papyrus of Tuy
John Taylor, Bridget Leach and Helen Sharp
