ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

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ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

ISIS Neutron and Muon Data

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

Data collected on the
INES instrument
at the ISIS facility

Abstract: 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.

Public release date: 28 November 2020

Principal Investigator: Dr Alan Williams
Experimenter: Dr Francesco Grazzi
Experimenter: Dr Toby Capwell
Experimenter: Ms Heather Newton
Local Contact: Dr Antonella Scherillo
Experimenter: Ms Sarah Turner
Experimenter: Mr Graeme McArthur
Experimenter: Mr David Edge
Experimenter: Ms Melody Wentz
Experimenter: Ms Laura Perucchetti
Experimenter: Dr Anna Fedrigo
Experimenter: Ms Ariane Langreder
Experimenter: Ms Katherine Skeates
Experimenter: Ms Francesca Levey
Experimenter: Mr Simon Metcalf

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.89638475

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1761003

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1761003

Part Number: 2

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Date of Experiment: 23 November 2017

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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Dr Alan Williams et al; (2017): The analysis of Medieval European helmets in the Wallace Collection and elsewhere, STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.89638475