Neutron diffraction analyses of Bronze Age swords from the Alpine region: Benchmarking neutron diffraction against laboratory methods

Mödlinger, Marianne; Godfrey, E.; Kockelmann, W.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.05.017

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“…Archaeological materials characterization via ND can be used to help determine the bulk composition hidden by corrosion [ 3 , 4 ], for help with authentication, for reconstructing past technologies [ 5 , 6 ], and for developing conservation plans by identifying artifact instabilities, such as internal corrosion. Studies using multiple techniques have included metallography, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and modern reference samples with known thermomechanical histories that help researchers interpret ND analyses [ 1 , 7 – 9 ]. Despite progress for a number of artifact types, relatively few ND studies have been applied to numismatic questions.…”

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Time-of-Flight Neutron Diffraction (TOF-ND) Analyses of the Composition and Minting of Ancient Judaean “Biblical” Coins

Nagler

Stoica

et al. 2019

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry

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TOF-ND elastic scattering of thermal neutrons offers some important advantages over X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and metallography for the study of archaeological and numismatic problems. Traditional analytical methods are usually destructive and often probe only the surface. Neutrons deeply penetrate samples, simultaneously giving nondestructive bulk information about the crystal structure, composition, and texture (alignment of crystallites) from which thermomechanical manufacturing processes (e.g., cast, struck, or rolled) may be inferred. An analysis of the metal composition and minting processes used for making ancient Judaean bronze and leaded bronze coins from first century BCE and CE is used as a case study. One of the first ND analyses of the temperature used for striking bronze coins is also presented.

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