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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/81376 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.
Author: Roxburgh, M.A.
Title: From the Fabricae of Augustus and the Workshops of Charlemagne: A
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From the Fabricae of Augustus and the Workshops of Charlemagne: A compositional study of corroded copper-alloy artifacts using hand-held portable XRF
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. dr. Carel Stolker,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op 03-12-2019
klokke 11:15 uur
door
Marcus Adrian Roxburgh Geboren te Chorley, United Kingdom
2 Promotores
Prof. dr. Frans Theuws (Universiteit Leiden)
Prof. dr. Hans D. J. Huisman (Universiteit Groningen)
Promotie commissie
Dean Prof. dr. Jan Kolen (Universiteit Leiden) Prof. dr. Patrick Degryse (Universiteit Leiden) Prof. dr. Dries Tys (Universiteit Brussel) Prof. dr. Mark Pollard (University of Oxford) Dr. Johan Nicolay (Universiteit Groningen)
Is archaeology a science or an art? "Neither - it's a vendetta"
- Mortimer Wheeler1
3 Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction. 4
Chapter 2 - A Non-destructive survey of early Roman copper-alloy brooches 25
using portable X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. Chapter 3 - Early Roman copper-alloy brooch production: a compositional 57
analysis of 400 brooches from Germaina Inferior. Chapter 4 - Disc Brooches of the Roman Iron Age, from the tarand cemeteries 69
of Estonia and North Latvia. Chapter 5 - The Cross & the Crucible: The production of Carolingian disc brooches 107
as objects of religious exchange? Chapter 6 - Where Worlds Collide: A typological and compositional analysis of the 127
copper-alloy mounts from Viking Age Walcheren. Chapter 7 - A workshop at the edge of the world? A compositional analysis of 153
copper-alloy finds from Early Medieval Walcheren. Chapter 8 - A comparative compositional study of 7th- to 11th century copper-alloy 187
