Glass, ancient

TABLE 31 Analytical Techniques Frequently Used to Study Ancient Glass... 

Brill, R. H. et al. (1990), Scientific Investigations of Ancient Glasses and Lead-Isotope Studies, Collected Papers, Lexis Nexis, New York. 

Caley, E. R. (1962), Analysis of Ancient Glasses, Coming Museum of Glass, Corning. 

Falcone, R., A. Renier, and M. Verita, M. (2002), Wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of ancient glasses, Archaeometry 44(4), 531-542. 

Freestone, I. C. (2005), The provenance of ancient glass through compositional analysis, in Vandiver, P. B., J. L. Mass, and A. Murray (eds.), Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology VII (Symposium, November 30-December 3, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts), Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vol. 852, Materials Research Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania. 

Gan, F., H. Cheng, and Q. Li (2006), Origin of Chinese ancient glasses - Study on the earliest Chinese ancient glasses, Science in China, Ser. E Tech. Sci. 49, 701-713. 

Griffiths, D. R. (1980), The Deterioration of Ancient Glass, B.Sc. thesis, Univ. Wales, Cardiff. 

Newman, A. (ed.) (1987), Chemistry of Clays and Clay Minerals, Longmans, London. Newton, R. G. (1985), The durability of glass A review, Glass Technol. 26, 21-38. Newton, R. G. (1980), Recent views on ancient glass, Glass Technol. 21,173-183. Newton, R. G. and S. Davison (1997), The Conservation of Glass, Butterworth-Heinemann, London. 

Olin, J. S. and E. V. Sayre (1974), Neutron activation analysis of some ancient glass, in Beck, C. W. (ed.), Archaeological Chemistry, Advances in Chemistry Series, Vol. 1, ACS, Washington, DC. 

Turner, W. E. S. (1959), Studies in ancient glasses and glass-making processes (VI) The composition and physical characteristics of the glass of the Portland vase, /. Soc. Glass Technol. 43, T262-T284. 

Turner, W. E. S. and H. P. Rooksby (1959), A study of opalizing agents of ancient glass throughout 3400 years, Glasstechnische Berichte 32(K), 17-28. 

Werner, A. E., M. Bimson, and N. D. Meeks (1975), The use of replica techniques and the scanning electron microscope in the study of ancient glass, /. Glass Stud. 17, 158-160. 

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a widespread analytical technique for the study of surfaces in materials science. Mostly used for elemental analyses and depth profiling, it is particularly relevant for many different fields of research including cultural heritage studies. Reviews of its use for the study of ancient glasses or metal artefacts already exist in the literature [Spoto 2000, Darque-Ceretti and Aucouturier 2004, Dowsett and Adriaens 2004, Adriens and Dowsett 2006, Anderle et al. 2006, McPhail 2006], but as only elemental information is obtained, these studies are limited to inorganic materials. 

Sayre, E.V. and Smith, R.V. (1961). Compositional categories of ancient glass. Science 133 1824-1826. 

Green L.R. and Hart F.A. (1987). Colour and chemical composition of ancient glass an examination of some Roman and Wealden glass by means of ultraviolet-visible-infra-red spectrometry and electron microprobe analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 14 271-282. 

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