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This bulletin, is part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum. 12 months after publication, the articles of each bulletin are uploaded onto the�British Museum website�for public viewing.
Foreword
David Saunders
Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare Tahitian canoe sail
Tara Hiquily, Jenny Newell, Monique Pullan, Nicole Rode and Arianna Bernucci
Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops
Susan La Niece, Stefan Rohrs, Dora Thornton and Antony Simpson
Egyptian stelae from Malta
Jeremy Young, Marcel Maree, Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton
Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other comparable coins
Gareth Williams and Michael Cowell
Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive examination of two jars from Burghley House
Michela Spataro, Nigel Meeks, Mavis Bimson, Aileen Dawson and Janet Ambers
The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from ancient Mexico
Margaret Sax and Nigel Meeks
Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade horse
Giovanni Verri, Paul Collins, Janet Ambers, Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson
A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork
Pippa Cruickshank, Vincent Daniels and Jonathan King
Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion
Quanyu Wang, He Huang and Fleur Shearman
An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis
Tracey Sweek and St John Simpson
Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean
Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villing
Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages
Maureen Mellor and Denise Ling
The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood identification and conservation challenges
Caroline Cartwright, Clare Ward, Jonathan Tubb and Helene Delaunay