A new OSL-reader, funded by the VR ArchLab infrastructure grant, has now been installed at the Lund Luminescence Laboratory (LLL) at Lund University. ‘The reader will significantly increase the capacity of our lab’, says Helena Alexanderson, head of the LLL. ‘We will now be able to process more samples than before. This means providing more and hopefully better luminescence ages to the archaeological community’.
An OSL-reader is an instrument used in luminescence dating to measure the luminescence signal from quartz or feldspar grains and thereby determining their age. The new reader is a Risø TL/OSL reader model DA-22 made by DTU Physics in Denmark. ‘Compared to our previous readers, this one has a slightly lower dose rate, which makes it suitable for young, archaeological materials’, explains Zoran Perić, research engineer.