Lead isotope analyses (LIA) on lead sling bullets from Pre-Roman and Roman context

The data publication presented is concerned with the collection of geochemical results enhanced with metadata of archaeologic, stylistic, geographic and other crucial information. The publication covers analytical and metadata sets of analysed projectiles, both from own and published works. Starting point for the data collection was the PhD thesis Müller 2018 were projectiles from different find sites, dating into the Roman Republic, were analysed and published.

The objects up to date included in the current database are from various find sites with varying archaeological background, which have been collected and evaluated by the authors for diachronic comparison within a supra-regional frame. Own unpublished data are also included. These data are of objects, which are too isolated in terms of a research question to be published in a journal. However, our intention is to make them accessible in the context compiled here for any further use. We hereby encourage other researchers to contribute to this database either with their published or even their unpublished data so that it can continuously develop for the specific objects presented here.

The samples taken by the project group were analysed in the laboratories of FIERCE, the Frankfurt Isotope and Element Research Center of Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Research Laboratory of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, a central unit within its research department using Multicollector ICP mass spectrometry.

We are initiating this database with the goal that it will grow through collective contributions from researchers working on this topic. It should therefore be seen as a project of collaborative engagement. The research team is dedicating its efforts to the continuation and maintenance of the database. Anyone who contributes data will be named as a contributor in subsequent versions of the database.