About the Authors

Pauline Burger

Contributed equally to this work with: Pauline Burger, Rebecca J. Stacey

Current address: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Institut de Chimie de Nice UMR7272–06108, Nice, France

Affiliation Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca J. Stacey

Contributed equally to this work with: Pauline Burger, Rebecca J. Stacey

rstacey@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Stephen A. Bowden

Affiliation Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Marei Hacke

Current address: Swedish National Heritage Board, Conservation Science, Visby, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Scientific Research, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

John Parnell

Affiliation Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RJS PB. Data curation: RJS PB. Formal analysis: RJS PB SAB MH. Funding acquisition: RJS PB. Investigation: RJS PB MH. Methodology: RJS PB. Project administration: RJS PB. Resources: RJS PB JP. Supervision: RJS PB. Visualization: RJS PB SAB. Writing – original draft: RJS PB SAB. Writing – review & editing: JP.