The analysis of Medieval European helmets in the Wallace Collection and elsewhere

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Our long-term aim is a detailed study of the Arms & Armour in the Wallace Collection, London, which contains over two thousand items and is one of the most important collections of European arms and armour in Europe. Many items of plate armour can be investigated non-invasively by metallography, depending on the shape of the plates. However, many helmets have rolled edges and so metallography is difficult without taking samples. so only neutron diffraction is an ethical method of analysis. There are a number of helmets which stylistically might be products of the Imperial Workshop at Innsbruck, but their makers’ marks have not survived. Characterising them as having microstructures of tempered martensite (in the late 15th century) would be strong evidence for their having been made in Innsbruck.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87813152
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87813152
Provenance
Creator Ms Heather Newton; Ms Sarah Turner; Dr Francesco Grazzi; Dr Toby Capwell; Mr Graeme McArthur; Mr David Edge; Dr Alan Williams; Dr Antonella Scherillo; Ms Melody Wentz; Ms Laura Perucchetti; Dr Anna Fedrigo; Ms Ariane Langreder; Ms Katherine Skeates; Ms Francesca Levey; Mr Simon Metcalf
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-09-28T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-02T08:46:03Z