Tubb: Romano-British pottery oxides

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Romano-British pottery oxides

Description

A dataframe with the major oxide composition of pottery found at Romano-British kiln sites in Wales, Gloucester and the New Forest as determined by atomic absorption.

Usage

data("Tubb")

Format

A data frame with 48 observations on the following 11 variables.

Sample

Sample identifier

Al2O3

Aluminium oxide

Fe2O3

Iron (III) oxide

MgO

Magnesium oxide

CaO

Calcium oxide

Na2O

Sodium oxide

K2O

Potassium oxide

TiO2

Titaniium dioxide

MnO

Manganese oxide

BaO

Barium oxide

site

Geographical region of the sample. G=Gloucester, NF=New Forest, W=Wales.

References

Tubb, A., Parker, A.J. and Nickless, G. (1980) The analysis of Romano-British pottery by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Archaeometry 22(2) pp. 153–171.

Examples

data(Tubb)

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