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
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
