A Mortar-like Sealant Layer in a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Clogher Lower, Co. Roscommon, Ireland

Autor:	M.E. Robinson, D. W. Shimwell, G. Cribbin
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Archeology Topsoil Bronze Age Sealant Marl engineering Mineralogy Bronze engineering.material Mortar Chemical composition Layer (electronics) Geology
Zdroj:	Journal of Archaeological Science. 23:569-575
ISSN:	0305-4403
Popis:	Constructional materials and chemical analyses of layers exposed in the cross section of a Bronze Age burial mound are described. X-ray fluorescence comparison of the chemical composition of topsoils from the land surrounding the mound, the topsoil sculpting the mound, and a calcium carbonate-rich layer above the mound's boulder core reveal differences in CaO/SiO2ratios and concentrations of the trace elements titanium and zirconium. Laboratory tests suggest that the calcium carbonate-rich layer may be a mixture of fired and slaked lake marl and esker sand used as a sealant for the boulder core in the construction of the mound.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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