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X‐RAY FLUORESCENT ANALYSIS OF ANGLO SAXON JEWELLERY
Author(s) -
BROWN P. D. C.,
SCHWEIZER F.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1973.tb00088.x
Subject(s) - fineness , anglo saxon , art , archaeology , fluorescence , ancient history , art history , classics , history , materials science , optics , physics , metallurgy
X‐ray fluorescence analysis of 30 pieces of Anglo Saxon jewellery, from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is followed by a comparison with similar results obtained from contemporary coinage. The standards of fineness for the coinage are applied to the jewellery and used to date its manufacture. An appendix describes repeatanalyses of some coins which, at first, had widely differing results from XRF and specific gravity methods.