Peter,
many thanks for that. no magic solutions, but information is information!
Stiof
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> From: Arch-Metals Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Peter Northover
> Sent: 19 December 2005 13:51
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> Subject: Re: Looking for gold sources - Broighter Hoard
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Broighter analyses are part of a huge project on prehistoric gold in
> Europe carried out by Axel Hartmann as part of the SAM project.
>
> The references are:-
>
> A. Hartmann, 1970: Prähistorische Goldfunde aus Europa I, Studien zu den
> Anfängen der Metallurgie, Bd 3, (Berlin: Grebr. Mann Verlag)
>
> and
>
> A. Hartmann, 1982: Prähistorische Goldfunde aus Europa II, Studien zu
> den Anfängen der Metallurgie, Bd 5, (Berlin: Grebr. Mann Verlag)
>
> At the very least, then the Broighter analyses have been in the public
> domain since 1982. There are, I believe, some further unpublished
> analyses from this project. The enterprise was mainly concerned with the
> Bronze Age but a certain amount of Iron Age material was done. More Iron
> Age gold alloy analyses will emerge in the medium term with the
> publication of all the material from Snettisham. This procfess is under
> way but there is a great deal of statistics etc. to do on the analyses
> as a great amount of helpful information is contained therein.
>
> Returning to the Broighter analyses, the presence of platinum
> differentiates the Iron Age gold from Bronze Age gold in Ireland. There
> have been recent attacks on the problem of provenancing Irish gold
> objects using trace elements but there is now a swing toewards the
> analysis of the silver content and of non-metallic inclusions as being
> more helpful. There has, I believe, been some success in provenancing
> the earliest Bronze Age gold but later in the Bronze Age recycling and
> re-alloying played an important role so provenancing may be impossible
> at that stage. For the Iron Age material with platinum the source is
> clearly different but I am not aware of progress in identifying it.
>
> Yours,
> Peter Northover
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> Dr Peter Northover,
> Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group,
> Department of Materials, University of Oxford
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