This bulletin, part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum, offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work of curators, conservators and scientists conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum.
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Foreword
David Saunders
Early Byzantine glass weights: aspects of function, typology and composition
Chris Entwistle and Andrew Meek
Conservation treatment and technical observations on two objects from the
Waddesdon Bequest with life castings
Maickel van Bellegem, Dora Thornton, Paul Buck and Susan La Niece
The Admonitions Scroll: condition, treatment and housing 1903–2014
Joanna Kosek, Jin Xian Qiu, Keisuke Sugiyama, Carol Weiss, DavidSaunders, Catherine Higgitt, Janet Ambers and Caroline Cartwright
A Great Lakes pouch of black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork: an update
Pippa Cruickshank
Developing a passive approach to the conservation of naturally mummified
human remains from the Fourth Cataract region of the Nile Valley
Barbara Wills and Daniel Antoine
A metallographic study of some debased silver coinage of Henry VIII
Quanyu Wang, Constantina Vlachou-Mogire, Megan Gooch and Barrie Cook
Tools for eternity: pre-Columbian workbaskets as textile production
toolkits and grave offerings
Karen E. Price, Catherine Higgitt, Thibaut Devièse,Colin McEwan and Bill Sillar
Scientific examination of the Roman ring-pommel sword said to be from Pevensey, East Sussex
Janet Lang and Ralph Jackson
Ancient Egyptian funerary food: new insights
Caroline Cartwright and John H. Taylor
A fresh assessment of a small stone plaque from China
Margaret Sax, Peter Hommel and Sascha Priewe
The conservation and technical investigation of a hollow-cast Egyptian bronze
Graeme McArthur, John H. Taylor and Paul Craddock
