Title: Retrieval of objects from archaeological sites /
Authors: Payton, Robert.
Date: 1992
Publisher: Archetype Publications,
Physical description: vii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: On-site conservation techniques : lifting principles and methods / Robert Payton -- The retrieval of grave goods from medieval and Roman cemeteries in London / Helen Jones -- The lifting of Roman floor and wall structures / Dana Goodburn Brown -- Lifting the Kirkburn mail tunic / Simon Dove and Ruth Goldstraw -- Retrieving the larger structure : ideas and case studies in lifting technology / John Price -- Lifting a Viking timber structure at Coppergate, York / James A. Spriggs -- The lifting of the barnstaple kiln / Richard L. Jaeschke -- The Woolwich Project : the removal of a 17th century stoneware kiln / John Price -- Recovery of the 'Hasholme Boat', Iron Age, c.400 BC / John W. Morris -- The Colossi from Argo Island and their transport to Khartoum / Friedrich W. Hinkel -- On-site conservation with the Canadian Conservation Institute / Charlotte L. Newton and Judith A. Logan -- Excavating and raising artifacts from a marine environment / Thomas W. Daley and Lorne D. Murdock -- A survey of two traditional moulding techniques for stone inscriptions / Robert Payton -- Recovery and treatment of skeletal remains at Herculaneum / Stephen P. Koob.
Notes: Some of the papers were originally presented at a two day seminar.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Congresses; Antiquities--Collection and preservation.; Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology)