X-Ray fluorescence analysis is well recognized as an effective tool for archaeometric analysis. For examples elemental compositions provide the researchers with basic information on the materials involved in the cultural properties under study and thus provide a clue to its historical background. The same information is also essential when the conservators try to preserve cultural properties. In this paper we studied a portable and inexpensive system for X-ray fluorescence analysis, making use of a smallSi-PIN diode spectrometer. The system is convenient for the study of cultural properties in the outdoors.