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Description: | Sheet gold band, soldered into a hoop, undecorated and unmarked, damaged at edges and flattened slightly into an oval shape in plan.This gold band has been analysed by Sharon Uren at Camborne School of Mines using their ICPMS machine to isolate the isotopes within the metal to determine its age to see if it needs to be submitted as potential Treasure once it can be proven to be over 300 years old. The results were analysed by Dr Peter Northover of Oxford Materials who states that its silver content is very low, as are the palladium and platinum contents, which would suggest that it is not Bornze Age in date (Peter Northover pers comm), but most likely later and it would be difficult to prove if it was over 300 years old. So the object has subsequently been returned to the finder.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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