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An Intercomparison of Some AMS and Small Gas Counter Laboratories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Richard Burleigh ,
Morven Leese  and
Michael Tite
Richard Burleigh
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
Morven Leese
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
Michael Tite
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
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Abstract

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The performance of six laboratories with the capacity to date small samples (4 AMS and 2 small gas-counter laboratories) has been compared using 100mg samples of textiles from Ancient Egypt and Peru, with the British Museum laboratory acting as independent coordinator. This intercomparison was one of normal practices and has demonstrated that a coherent series of results can be obtained when several laboratories undertake blindfold measurements, although the occurrence of outliers emphasizes the continuing need for the dating of unusually important or controversial samples to be undertaken by a group of laboratories.

Type
V. Conventional Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 571 - 577
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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