British Museum Technical
Research Bulletin
The Technical Research Bulletin publishes the results of collaborative work by the British Museum's curators, conservators and scientists covering a broad range of objects and materials from across the Museum’s collection.
Published once a year, each issue aims to encompass objects from different continents, historical periods and material types. The Bulletin is designed to appeal both to those with a general interest in the Museum’s collections and those with a specialist interest who wish to broaden their horizons.
Volume 1
Examines some of the different material aspects of objects in the Museum collection.
Volume 2
Detailing the assessment, examination, treatment and analysis of objects from across the Museum’s collections and beyond.
Volume 3
Shedding light on cultures from the ancient civilisations of the world.
Volume 4
Papers on exploring the evidence for cultural transmission and trade to questions of object attribution and authenticity.
Volume 5
Available now in hard copy and online in Autumn 2012:
- Beauty and belief: the endangered tradition of Omani silver jewellery
- Evidence for shield construction from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site of Tranmer House, Bromeswell, Suffolk
- The Noli me Tangere: study and conservation of a Cretan icon
- Grimes Graves revisited: a new light on chalk ‘lamps’
- Portrait mummies from Roman Egypt: ongoing collaborative research on wood identification
- A Chinese bronze gui vessel: genuine Western Zhou object or fake?
- Investigating technological and environmental evidence from plant remains and molluscs in cuneiform tablets
- Defence and decoration: new findings on a late fourteenth-century ‘kettle-hat’ helmet found in London
- Assessing the potential of historic archaeological collections: a pilot study of the British Museum’s Swiss lake dwelling textiles
- The history and conservation of the papyrus of Tuy
For more information contact science@britishmuseum.org
Department of Conservation and Scientific Research
To order a hard copy of the Technical Research Bulletin contact Archetype Publications: info@archetype.co.uk
