Michael Cowell

Michael R. (Mike) Cowell is a metallurgist and archaeological scientist, who worked for over 30 years in the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum, publishing on archaeometallurgy, ancient coinage, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), trace-element analysis, conservation science, and analytical methods applied to archaeological materials.

Selected Publications

Cowell’s work is often collaborative, focussing on objects in the British Museum and other collections. He has an extensive range of publications in journals (including Archaeometry, Historical Metallurgy, British Numismatic Journal, Numismatic Chronicle), excavation reports, conference proceedings and scientific appendices to catalogues.

Books and edited volumes

1990 - Jackson, R. 1990. Camerton: The Late Iron Age and Early Roman Metalwork. With Scientific report by Michael Cowell. London: British Museum Publications.
1991 - Cowell, M. R., Hughes, M. J., & Hook, D. R. (eds.). 1991. Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology: Techniques and Applications. British Museum Occasional Paper 82. London: British Museum Press.
1993 - Marion M. Archibald and Michael R. Cowell (eds), Metallurgy in Numismatics, vol. 3 (Royal Numismatic Society, Special Publication 23, 1993).
1994 - Egan, G., Cowell, M. R., & Granger-Taylor, H. 1994. Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum. British Museum Occasional Paper 93. London: British Museum.
1998 - W. Andrew Oddy and Michael Cowell (eds), Metallurgy in Numismatics, vol. IV ((Royal Numismatic Society, Special Publication 30, 1998).
2005 – Wang, H., Cowell, M., Cribb, J., Bowman, S., Wayman, M. and Shashoua, Y., Metallurgical Analysis of Chinese Coins at the British Museum (British Museum Research Publication ISBN 9780861591526

Articles

1976 - Cowell, M.R. 1976. "Atomic absorption techniques in archaeology" (with M. J. Hughes and P. T. Craddock), Archaeometry 18(1): 19–37.
1977 - "Prehistoric flint mines and their identification as sources of raw material", Archaeometry 14:151–176.
1977 - Cowell, M.R. 1977. "Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of ancient gold alloys." PACT 1, 76–85.
1983 - Craddock, P.T., Cowell, M.R., Leese, M.N. & Hughes, M.J. 1983. "The trace element composition of polished flint axes as an indicator of source". Archaeometry 25:135–163.
1987 - Cowell, M.R., Oddy, W.A., & Burnett, A.M. 1987. "Celtic coinage in Britain: new hoards and recent analyses." British Numismatic Journal 57, 1–23.
1990 - Cowell, M. 1990. "Report on the analysis of nine early post-medieval stove-tile fragments from St Mary Graces". Post-Medieval Archaeology 24.
1991 - Hughes, M. J., Cowell, M.R. & Hook, D. R. (eds.) 1991. Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology. British Museum Occasional Paper 82.
2001 - Gondonneau, A., Guerra, M.F. & Cowell, M.R. 2001. "Searching for the provenance of gold: the methodology of gold analysis by ICP-MS". Proceedings of Archaeometry 2000.
2020 - Cowell, M. R. 2020. "A Component of cliché type coin forgery manufacture?" The Crucible (Historical Metallurgy Society Newsletter), no. 18.

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