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Dear Carole,
Thanks for your messages. I am still here - although I nearly got stuck
in the floods in Dorset yesterday. Cold and dark I do not mind, in fact
I quite like, it is just thge damp that gets to my old bones.=20
I have pencilled in Lule=E5 for the new year; it depends a little on my=20
teaching commitments. We do keep a little progress going on the tin=20
question, generally getting the probe data in shape to write up. I=20
think our final conclusion will be that the composition of the hardhead
inclusions is too variable within one sample to be helpful, at least at
microprobe level. The lA-ICP-MS may help, in that elements at trace=20
level might be a little more informative but I am far from optimistic.=20
To my mind now the most promising technique for looking at tin sources=20
is the lead isotope analysis of tin artifacts. Tin isotopes may come=20
into their own one day but we have a ways to go in getting the=20
mass-sepctrometers stable enough for the sort of performance we need.=20
Tin isotopes will be the only way ever into provenancing tin in bronze=20
so I suppose there is some merit in persisting with that.
How the otehr partners in the project are I do not know as I have not=20
seen Robin in a good while and Noel I have not seen in months. I am=20
annoyed about that because after putting myself and the department out=20
to get him office space he never uses it.
See you some time. Give my regards to helle and Debie.
Cheers,
Peter
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Peter Northover
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