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Thermoluminescence authenticity testing of ancient ceramics using radiation-sensitivity changes in quartz

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Routine use of this new TL dating principle gives support to authenticity judgements made using the standard high temperature TL analysis [15, 16]. In the course of over 300 investigations (in addition to those described here) made at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, Oxford, at no time have the two TL methods appeared to be in conflict. In the broader field of archaeological dating it is anticipated that age determination will be possible for Mediaeval (and younger) pottery with an accuracy competitive with that possible by the radiocarbon method for such recent material [17].

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  2. History of Art, Oxford University, Keble Road, Oxford

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Fleming, S.J. Thermoluminescence authenticity testing of ancient ceramics using radiation-sensitivity changes in quartz. Naturwissenschaften 59, 145–151 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00637352

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