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2023
Journal article
Textiles in a Viking Age hoard: Identifying ephemeral traces of textiles in metal corrosion products
This paper presents a novel method and terminology to identify and describe textiles from ephemeral traces in metal corrosion products. Since the 1980s, mineralised textiles (positive and negative casts in Janaway’s terminology) have been an important source of archaeological evidence. A major issue now is the identification of textiles in...Davis, Mary ; Harris, Susanna
Textile , Mineralisation, Silver, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Microscopy, Copper corrosion, Viking age, and Anglo-Saxon
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2023
Journal article
Conservation of the elaborate Anglo-Saxon cross from the Galloway Hoard
The Galloway Hoard is a set of rare and precious artefacts, some of them centuries old when deposited around AD 900. One of the most spectacular objects is an Anglo-Saxon pectoral cross, made to be worn on the chest of a high-ranking member of the clergy. Its true glory has...Davis, Mary
research, conservation, Trewhiddle style art, Galloway Hoard, and pectoral cross