Notice catalographique « Proceedings of the 6th ICOM group on wet organic archaeological materials conference »

• Hoffmann, Per
• Daley, Thomas
• Grant, Tara
• ICOM Committee for Conservation. Working Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials
• Parks Canada

Contents:

Freeze drying highly degraded waterlogged wood
Jacqui Watson

Freeze-lifting a neolithic wooden hurdle
Jennifer Jones

Monitoring changes in water content in the WASA wood with a resistance meter
Birgitta Hafors

Stabilization of the Snow Squall using a lumber drying kiln
R. W. Rice and Molly O'Guinness Carlson

Results of the characterisation of the anoxic waterlogged environments which preserve archaeological organic materials
Chris Caple, David Dungworth and Phil Clogg

The wood decay potential of anaerobic marine sediments at the Mary Rose excavation site
Stephen B. Pointing, A. Mark Jones and E. B. Gareth Jones

An in situ preservation project in Somerset
Richard Brunning

Piglets in peat: Why are they still there after several months?
Heather Gill-Robinson

A survey of conservation methods for Trondheim's water-degraded archaeological rope
Elizabeth Peacock and Gillian Schofield

Conservation of waterlogged cedar basketry and cordage
Tara Grant, Malcolm Bilz and Vera de la Cruz

Scanning electron microscopy and fibre shrinkage temperature analysis of archaeological waterlogged leather: observations on medieval leather from Swinegate, York
Amanda Wallace

The use of condition score to determine glycerol concentration in the treatment of waterlogged archaeological leather: an empirical solution
Kirsten Suenson-Taylor and Dean Sully

The unfrozen water content of archaeological wood samples, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry
Theo Skinner

Condition assessment and conservation strategies for waterlogged wood assemblages
lan Panter and Jim Spriggs

Wood degradation on historic shipwreck sites: The use of FT-IR spectroscopy to study the loss of hemicellulose
lan D. MacLeod and Vicki L. Richards

The method of thermo-mechanical analysis for archaeological wood research
Elena Mikolaychuk and Adolf Leonovich

Conservation of waterlogged wood using sugar alcohol and comparison of the effectiveness of lactitol, sucrose and PEG 4000 treatment
Setsuo Imazu and Andras Morgos

Nonionic surfactants in sucrose solutions and highly concentrated glucose syrup for waterlogged woods
Giancarlo Strigazzi and Astrid Koberstein

A logboat - from Berne to Brede. The conservation of a Swiss logboat in Denmark
lon Meyer

The conservation of the Poole Log-boat: sucrose treatment on a large scale
Jeremy Hutchings

Protection of waterlogged wooden objects kept in water against decay
Haruko Sakai, Setsuo Imazu and Andras Morgos

Practical considerations for gamma irradiation sterilisation of waterlogged archaeological wood
Stephen B. Pointing, A. Mark Jones and E. B. G. Jones

The impact of metal corrosion products on the degradation of waterlogged wood recovered from historic shipwreck sites
lan D. MacLeod and Vicki L. Richards

Problems concerning the freeze-drying process itself
Jesper Trier

The potential of zirconium compounds for the conservation of waterlogged archaeological wood artefacts
Haydn Sutcliffe, Caroline Wood and David Madier

Diffusion, sorption and degradation of polyethylene glycol

Degradation of PEG: A review
Jens Glastrup

Strange brew: BHA, PEG and H20
Malcolm Bilz and David Grattan

Sorption of water and water soluble agents in the waterlogged wooden cell wall
Poul Jensen

Diffusion rates of PEG into wet archaeological oak
Lesley R. Dean, A. Mark Jones and E. G. Gareth Jones

Diffusion in waterlogged wood. Computer models
Poul Jensen

Counting the costs: caring for an excavated boat
Kate Hunter and Nigel Nayling

The Magor Pill Wreck: aspects of recovery, conservation and interpretation
Diane Dollery

The Barton on Humber project - a large collection of waterlogged wood: data retrieval, storage, pre and post treatment methods
Julia Park

Bilan et perspectives du remontage des barques de Pommeroeul
Alfred Terfve

The conservation of the Bremen Cog - between the steps
Per Hoffmann

The Hasholme iron age logboat: 17 metres of trouble!
Andrew Foxon

Conservation of the Bronze-Age boat from Dover: an interim report
Jacqui Watson

Treatment of a neolithic dugout canoe from Paris-Bercy: Controlled drying after PEG impregnation and attempt at modelling of the drying process
Quôc Khôi Tran, Xavier Hiron and Emmanuel Damery

Some physical properties of archaeological woods from Novgorod
Elena Mikolaychuk

Panel on leather treatment

• Wood - Preservation
• Underwater archaeology
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Fouilles (Archéologie)
• Archéologie sous-marine
• Bois - Conservation