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.

Read Volume 1
 

Volume 2

Detailing the assessment, examination, treatment and analysis of objects from across the Museum’s collections and beyond.

Read Volume 2

Volume 3

Available now in hard copy and online in Autumn 2010:

• Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare Tahitian canoe sail
• Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops
• Egyptian stelae from Malta
• Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other comparable coins
• Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive examination of two jars from Burghley House
• The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from ancient Mexico
• Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade horse
• A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork
• Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion
• An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis
• Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean
• Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages
• The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood identification and conservation challenges

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