Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gutiérrez Neira, P.C.
• Zucchiatti, A.
• Montero-Ruiz, I.
• Vilaça, R.
• Bottaini, C.
• Gener, M.
• Climent-Font, A.

Titel

Late Bronze Age hoard studied by PIXE

Ist Teil von

• Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 2011-12, Vol.269 (24), p.3082-3086

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The hoards of metallic objects belonging to the Late European Bronze Age can be interpreted differently depending on the type, number and composition of the artefacts. PIXE analysis has been performed in nine items from the Hoard of Freixanda in Portugal comprising four socket axes, a palstave axe, a ring, a chisel, a dagger, and a casting debris. Besides the composition of the main matrix elements, that is Cu and Sn, the amount of trace elements of interest like, As, Pb, Ni, and Ag has been determined using this ion beam technique. The high tin content alloy and the high purity of the metals from the Freixanda hoard are characteristic of the Portuguese and Spanish Late Bronze Age metallurgy, supporting the idea of a regional production.