Marcus Adrian Roxburgh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5217975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Adrian Roxburgh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Roxburgh |
| SIGNATURE | ROXBURGH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6565-701X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Hoard of Cu‐Alloy Viking Age Penannular Brooches From a Wetland Site in Lithuania—Explored With Portable X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
One of the largest assemblages of metal artefacts found in Lithuania was discovered in a small river valley near Šliktinė, dating between the 9th and 12th centuries ad . This ritually deposited hoard includes both Cu‐alloy costume accessories and many iron weapons. We present a pXRF exploration of 35 Cu‐alloy penannular brooches from this hoard. It was first deployed non‐invasively on the outer surfaces; then a selected few were mechanically clea…
An elemental exploration of the metal contents of an early 13th-century craft box from Lõhavere, using pXRF
The craft box recovered from a 13th-century hillfort at LÃμhavere, Estonia, contained a well-preserved selection of copper-alloy objects. The limited corrosion on these objects allowed a more accurate estimation of their compositions through non-destructive surface measurements. Using the resulting pXRF database, this study explored a possible correlation between the types of objects and their material composition. By comparing the most common…
A ‘Roman Brass’ Age
Brass quickly overtook bronze as the dominant copper alloy across vast areas of the Roman world and beyond during the 1st century BC. It has also been established that the quality of this brass changed over time. To establish whether a rapid transition from bronze to brass also took place in the north-eastern Baltic, over 1200 copper-alloy objects were analysed non-destructively by pXRF. They were primarily sourced from the tarand cemeteries of E…
A long‐distance copper alloy trade to the North Eastern Baltic during the late pre‐Roman and Roman Iron Age (250 BCE–450 CE) explored with lead isotope MC‐ICP‐MS
The North Eastern Baltic has no copper resources of its own, meaning that Cu alloy was imported either as raw material or as finished objects. The north‐eastern coastline of Estonia during the late pre‐Roman and Roman Iron Age was connected to the south by sea to the long‐distance ‘amber’ trade route and to the east by Russian river systems. This study quantitatively assesses the direction of the Cu alloy supply in the region before and after bra…
Head-shield brooches of the Roman Iron Age from the Tarand cemeteries of the eastern Baltic
This study is dedicated to the head-shield brooches from the tarand cemetery area in Estonia, Latvia and lands west of the Izhora plateau. Its aim is to better understand their development through a combined typological, compositional and chronological analysis and explore their social role in the identity politics of the people wearing them. The compositional evaluation was supported with portable X-ray florescence spectrometry (XRF), to improve…
Time Machines; An exploration of Roman period copper-alloy objects in an Estonian tarand cemetery, using pXRF
This paper presents a new qualitative method for the use of pXRF in archaeological research. A bulk, multi-elemental approach applies a non-destructive survey technique to the copper-alloy objects recovered in a Roman period tarand cemetery, in north-east Estonia. The aim is to explore the chronological development of the cemetery by comparing the objects and their find locations against historically known changes in alloy composition. Then a mor…
Non‐Destructive Survey of Early Roman Copper‐Alloy Brooches using Portable X‐ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
This paper argues that portable X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF) is a suitable elemental measurement technique to study the production of copper‐alloy artefacts. However, rather than try to imitate the accuracy and precision of laboratory techniques, it is more beneficial to deploy it in a survey role, one that attempts to model chronological and geographical changes within large quantities of artefacts. To achieve this, it was investigated…
A Comparative Compositional Study of 7th- to 11th-Century Copper-Alloy Pins from Sedgeford, England, and Domburg, the Netherlands
EARLY MEDIEVAL PINS are found in large quantities on both sides of the North Sea and the English Channel, and as a result are one of the few artefact types that can facilitate the exploration of cross-cultural contacts in terms of style, material and manufacture. This paper presents the results of the analyses of two contemporary groups of copper-alloy pins dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. One group…
Early Roman copper-alloy brooch production
We present here a compositional study of a large number of copper-alloy brooches, undertaken in 2014 using Handheld X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (HHpXRF). The brooches, which come from the area of Nijmegen, date from the Late Iron Age until the 2nd c. A.D. Our aim is to explore the ways in which artefact production was organized both in the context of Roman centres and in the countryside. The link between alloys and workshop organization will …
Non‐Destructive Survey of Early Roman Copper‐Alloy Brooches using Portable X‐ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
This paper argues that portable X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF) is a suitable elemental measurement technique to study the production of copper‐alloy artefacts. However, rather than try to imitate the accuracy and precision of laboratory techniques, it is more beneficial to deploy it in a survey role, one that attempts to model chronological and geographical changes within large quantities of artefacts. To achieve this, it was investigated…
A ‘Roman Brass’ Age
Brass quickly overtook bronze as the dominant copper alloy across vast areas of the Roman world and beyond during the 1st century BC. It has also been established that the quality of this brass changed over time. To establish whether a rapid transition from bronze to brass also took place in the north-eastern Baltic, over 1200 copper-alloy objects were analysed non-destructively by pXRF. They were primarily sourced from the tarand cemeteries of E…
Early Roman copper-alloy brooch production
We present here a compositional study of a large number of copper-alloy brooches, undertaken in 2014 using Handheld X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (HHpXRF). The brooches, which come from the area of Nijmegen, date from the Late Iron Age until the 2nd c. A.D. Our aim is to explore the ways in which artefact production was organized both in the context of Roman centres and in the countryside. The link between alloys and workshop organization will …
Time Machines; An exploration of Roman period copper-alloy objects in an Estonian tarand cemetery, using pXRF
This paper presents a new qualitative method for the use of pXRF in archaeological research. A bulk, multi-elemental approach applies a non-destructive survey technique to the copper-alloy objects recovered in a Roman period tarand cemetery, in north-east Estonia. The aim is to explore the chronological development of the cemetery by comparing the objects and their find locations against historically known changes in alloy composition. Then a mor…
An elemental exploration of the metal contents of an early 13th-century craft box from Lõhavere, using pXRF
The craft box recovered from a 13th-century hillfort at LÃμhavere, Estonia, contained a well-preserved selection of copper-alloy objects. The limited corrosion on these objects allowed a more accurate estimation of their compositions through non-destructive surface measurements. Using the resulting pXRF database, this study explored a possible correlation between the types of objects and their material composition. By comparing the most common…
Early Roman copper-alloy brooch production
We present here a compositional study of a large number of copper-alloy brooches, undertaken in 2014 using Handheld X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (HHpXRF). The brooches, which come from the area of Nijmegen, date from the Late Iron Age until the 2nd c. A.D. Our aim is to explore the ways in which artefact production was organized both in the context of Roman centres and in the countryside. The link between alloys and workshop organization will …
A Comparative Compositional Study of 7th- to 11th-Century Copper-Alloy Pins from Sedgeford, England, and Domburg, the Netherlands
EARLY MEDIEVAL PINS are found in large quantities on both sides of the North Sea and the English Channel, and as a result are one of the few artefact types that can facilitate the exploration of cross-cultural contacts in terms of style, material and manufacture. This paper presents the results of the analyses of two contemporary groups of copper-alloy pins dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. One group…
Non‐Destructive Survey of Early Roman Copper‐Alloy Brooches using Portable X‐ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
This paper argues that portable X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry (pXRF) is a suitable elemental measurement technique to study the production of copper‐alloy artefacts. However, rather than try to imitate the accuracy and precision of laboratory techniques, it is more beneficial to deploy it in a survey role, one that attempts to model chronological and geographical changes within large quantities of artefacts. To achieve this, it was investigated…
Head-shield brooches of the Roman Iron Age from the Tarand cemeteries of the eastern Baltic
This study is dedicated to the head-shield brooches from the tarand cemetery area in Estonia, Latvia and lands west of the Izhora plateau. Its aim is to better understand their development through a combined typological, compositional and chronological analysis and explore their social role in the identity politics of the people wearing them. The compositional evaluation was supported with portable X-ray florescence spectrometry (XRF), to improve…
Time Machines; An exploration of Roman period copper-alloy objects in an Estonian tarand cemetery, using pXRF
This paper presents a new qualitative method for the use of pXRF in archaeological research. A bulk, multi-elemental approach applies a non-destructive survey technique to the copper-alloy objects recovered in a Roman period tarand cemetery, in north-east Estonia. The aim is to explore the chronological development of the cemetery by comparing the objects and their find locations against historically known changes in alloy composition. Then a mor…
A ‘Roman Brass’ Age
Brass quickly overtook bronze as the dominant copper alloy across vast areas of the Roman world and beyond during the 1st century BC. It has also been established that the quality of this brass changed over time. To establish whether a rapid transition from bronze to brass also took place in the north-eastern Baltic, over 1200 copper-alloy objects were analysed non-destructively by pXRF. They were primarily sourced from the tarand cemeteries of E…
A long‐distance copper alloy trade to the North Eastern Baltic during the late pre‐Roman and Roman Iron Age (250 BCE–450 CE) explored with lead isotope MC‐ICP‐MS
The North Eastern Baltic has no copper resources of its own, meaning that Cu alloy was imported either as raw material or as finished objects. The north‐eastern coastline of Estonia during the late pre‐Roman and Roman Iron Age was connected to the south by sea to the long‐distance ‘amber’ trade route and to the east by Russian river systems. This study quantitatively assesses the direction of the Cu alloy supply in the region before and after bra…
An elemental exploration of the metal contents of an early 13th-century craft box from Lõhavere, using pXRF
The craft box recovered from a 13th-century hillfort at LÃμhavere, Estonia, contained a well-preserved selection of copper-alloy objects. The limited corrosion on these objects allowed a more accurate estimation of their compositions through non-destructive surface measurements. Using the resulting pXRF database, this study explored a possible correlation between the types of objects and their material composition. By comparing the most common…
A Hoard of Cu‐Alloy Viking Age Penannular Brooches From a Wetland Site in Lithuania—Explored With Portable X‐Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
One of the largest assemblages of metal artefacts found in Lithuania was discovered in a small river valley near Šliktinė, dating between the 9th and 12th centuries ad . This ritually deposited hoard includes both Cu‐alloy costume accessories and many iron weapons. We present a pXRF exploration of 35 Cu‐alloy penannular brooches from this hoard. It was first deployed non‐invasively on the outer surfaces; then a selected few were mechanically clea…
Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Materials Science (6 works) · Metallurgy (6 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Copper alloy (5 works) · History (5 works)