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METTLER TOLEDO Helps Solve
Remaining Mysteries About Domesday Book
In its continuing efforts to elucidate the mysteries surrounding one of
the nation's treasures, The National Archives in the UK has iaunched
a major project to scientificaliy examine Domesday Booi(. The one
year project wiii attempt to address a number of questions which
remain unanswered about this icon of British History, using anaiyticai techniques and the expertise of an internationai team.
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The Domesday Book is ihe UK's most fa-
Over the next 12 months, the Conservation
Thermal testing analysis using equipment
raous and earliest surviving public record,
Research team at The National Archives,
provided by METTLER TOLEDO will be
It was comraissioned in 1085 by William I
alongside specialists from Cardiff Univer-
used to undertake this important piece of
who conquered England after the Battle
sity Biophysics Group and The vSchool of
work. The equipment enables the analy-
of Hastings in 1066. It is a highly detailed
Conservation in Denmark, will seek to
sis of small fibres taken from the volume
survey and valuation of all the land held
answer outstanding questions relating to
to be carried out on site at The National
by the King and his chief tenants, along
Domesday Book such as the species of an-
Archives, which means the book will not
with all the resources that went with the
imal used for the parchment and tbe type
need to be moved out of the Building.
land in late llth Century England. The
of ink it was written with. This project also
survey was a massive enterprise, and the has a long-term conservation aim, as the
Nancy Bell, head of research strategy at
record of that survey, Domesday Book, was
team will look to determine the condi-
The National Archives reports: "We are
a remarkable achievement. There is noth-
tion of the parchment, in order to provide
delighted having METTLER TOLEDO's
ing like it in England unti! the censuses
the optimal environmental conditions to
Support for this project, This is an excei-
of the 19th Century, Today, the Domesday
ensure the long-term survival of the price-
leiit example of how science applied to the
Book can be seen in the museum at The
less 920 year-old document.
study of cultural artifacts can play a lead-
National Archives, Kew.
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ing role in bringing history to life."
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