Neutron tomography and Bragg edge imaging of the Medieval Two-Edged Sword: IX 2141, from the Collection of the Royal Armouries, Leeds

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The European Medieval double-edged sword develops in the 11th century from the Viking Age sword. Already in the 10th century, some of the finest examples of the Ulfberth type Viking sword began to exhibit slender blade geometry, moving the centre of mass closer to the hilt.We propose to characterize the material properties and manufacture of the two-edge Medieval sword from the Royal Armouries (RA) using means of non-destructive methods: white beam neutron tomography, Bragg edge imaging on IMAT as part of a full investigation including crystal phase analysis, residual strain analysis and elemental depths analysis using negative muons, which will provide insight on material used, workshop practice and provenance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.92936788
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/92936788
Provenance
Creator Dr Lauren McGhee; Mr Henry Yallop; Ms Eleanor Rowley-Conwy; Mr Giles Storey; Dr Genoveva Burca; Dr Dirk Visser
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-05-02T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-05-11T14:47:40Z