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    • Gilding on plate armour
    • Zinc coatings of Indian plate and mail armour
    • Distinguishing replacement rivets on armour
    • Investigating a sixteenth century Welsh buckler
    • Cast iron Tudor firearms
    • Armour-piercing arrowheads
    • An unusual form of oriental mail
    • The metallurgy of plate armour
    • Japanese sword technology
    • The metallurgy of Japanese plate armour
    • The jack of plates: Evidence of re-cycling
    • Duplex bulletproof armour
    • English Civil War carbine
    • A Heavily restored Corinthian helmet
    • Screw threads as indicators of date
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Analytical Projects

Here are 15 different analytical projects to examine which demonstrate how we use each of the 3 analytical processes:

• X-ray fluorescence (XRF)
• X-radiography
• Optical Microscopy

These processes are discussed in greater detail in the Conservation in Practice section, and are used in the everyday work of the Conservation department of the Royal Armouries.

In each case a project is broken down into four sections:

• The question
• Results of analysis
• Significance
• Outcome

• Gilding on plate armour

  

• Zinc coatings of Indian plate and mail armour

  

• Distinguishing replacement rivets on armour

  

• Investigating a sixteenth century Welsh buckler

  

• Cast iron Tudor firearms

  

• Armour-piercing arrowheads

  

• An unusual form of oriental mail

  

• The metallurgy of plate armour

  

• Japanese sword technology

  

• The metallurgy of Japanese plate armour

  

• The jack of plates: Evidence of re-cycling

  

• Duplex bulletproof armour

  

• English Civil War carbine

  

• A Heavily restored Corinthian helmet

  

• Screw threads as indicators of date