Bowl Research (2) Report from Dr Peter Northover Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group,
I have now properly re-analysed the two samples from the bowl and can now write up - when I have time. Although the two parts of the bowl are quite similar in alloy terms they are otherwise distinct. The bottom half of the bowl uses a copper we associate with a source in the SW in the Iron Age but which was going out of use by the mid-1st century BC. As it also has old rivet holes in it we could see an old bottom having a new top fitted but, perhaps, retaining some features of the earlier bowl in the decorative rivets.
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