Broken Edges: Investigating Jewelry Damage by Violence and Fatigue
Author(s): Nancy Wicker
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Many Scandinavian Migration Period gold bracteate pendants of the 5th and 6th centuries show evidence of pre- or post-depositional damage. Impressions of broken edges of the jewelry were made with polyvinyl siloxane (PVS), and the impressions were then analyzed as part of a larger project to analyze fatigue fractures of gold as a dental material. Attempts are made to ascertain which pendants broke due to metal fatigue from long-term wear and which were mutilated as the result of violence.
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Broken Edges: Investigating Jewelry Damage by Violence and Fatigue. Nancy Wicker. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451281)
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Geographic Keywords
Europe: Northern Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -26.016; min lat: 53.54 ; max long: 31.816; max lat: 80.817 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22883