ForewordDavid SaundersThe fall and rise of a Roman statue: the Kew Gardens HermesKathryn Oliver, Peter Higgs and Michela SpataroThe Norwich shroud: conservation and investigation of a rare Eighteenth Dynasty shroudMonique Pullan, Janet Ambers, Caroline Cartwright, John H. Taylor and Faye KalloniatisA radioactive shamanic apron with glass diseaseRachel Swift, Andrew S. Meek, Nicole Rode and Anouska KomlosyHidden, looted, saved: the scientific research and conservation of a group of Begram ivories from the National Museum of AfghanistanEmma Passmore, Janet Ambers, Catherine Higgitt, Clare Ward, Barbara Wills, St John Simpson and Caroline CartwrightHidden history?: examination of two patches on John White's map of 'Virginia'Janet Ambers, Joanna Russell, David Saunders and Kim SloanAn economic history of the post-Medieval world in 50 ingots: the British Museum collection of ingots from dated wrecksPaul Craddock and Duncan HookIdentification of hairs and fibres in Great Lakes objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries using variable pressure scanning electron microscopyCaroline Cartwright and Jonathan C.H. KingInvestigating and interpreting an early-to-mid sixth-century Frankish style helmet Jamie Hood, Barry Ager, Craig Williams, Susan Harrington and Caroline CartwrightArchaeobotanical research in a pharaonic town in ancient NubiaPhilippa Ryan, Caroline Cartwright and Neal Spencer.