British Museum Technical Research Bulletin
Volume 1
The first volume of the British Museum Technical Research
Bulletin focuses on material aspects of the collection,
encompassing a wide range of activities, from looking at
objects carefully and in depth – often under magnification – during
the course of a conservation treatment, to analytical studies to
determine the chemical and physical properties of objects.
Such examination is not an end in itself, but informs wider
questions about, for example, the provenance, manufacture, use,
history, treatment, deterioration and future preservation of these
artefacts.
Articles
A Shell Garniture from Gujarat, India in
the British Museum
Barbara Wills, Susan La Niece, Bet
McLeod and Caroline Cartwright
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German, Italian and Japanese
New Visions of a New World: The
conservation and analysis of the John White watercolours
Jenny Bescoby, Judith Rayner, Janet Ambers and Duncan Hook
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
The effect of ultraviolet-filtered
light on the mechanical strength of fabrics
Capucine Korenberg
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
An elusive stone: the use of
variscite as a semi-precious stone
Andrew Middleton, Susan
La Niece, Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook, Richard Hobbs and Guy
Seddon
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
The emperor’s terrapin
Margaret
Sax, Janet Ambers, Nigel Meeks and Sheila Canby
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
Aztec conch shell working:
high-tech design
Caroline Cartwright and Nigel Meeks
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
Writing that cannot be erased:
investigations of a box of pigmented inlays from the tomb chapel of
an Old Kingdom noble
Janet Ambers, Rebecca Stacey and John H Taylor
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
The black bronzes of
Burma
Maickel van Bellegem, Philip Fletcher, Paul Craddock, Susan La
Niece and Richard Blurton
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
The effects of relative humidity on the
corrosion of iron: an experimental view
Quanyu Wang
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Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese
For more information
about any of these articles contact science@britishmuseum.org
To order a hard copy of
Volume 1 contact Archetype Publications: info@archetype.co.uk