The underwater Montefortino Helmet from Capo San Vito: neutron diffraction analysis at INES beamline to determine composition and manufactur

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The two Helmets subject of this proposal are kept in the Museo Archeologico Regionale Lilibeo - Baglio Anselmi of Marsala (Trapani, Italy). They were found in the seabed of Capo San Vito (Trapani, Italy) in an area where a Spanish galleon, guns and other finds were discovered. For this reason, the two Helmets were initially dated to the same period of the other findings (1500).The dating has been revised by some archaeologists which recognised the helmets as Montefortino type and thus dated as VI - III sec. B.C.The features of the Helmets are unusual with respect the other ancient Helmets covered by thin patinas.We propose neutron diffraction measurements on the INES beamline aiming to characterize the helmets in terms of crystalline phases quantification and copper alloy composition and microstructure.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98000132
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98000132
Provenance
Creator Dr Antonella Scherillo; Professor Sebastiano Tusa; Dr Maria Luisa Saladino; Professor Eugenio Caponetti; Dr Francesco Armetta
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 2018-09-14T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-02T11:19:49Z