Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Foreword by James A. Spriggs
• Acknowledgements
• List of authors
• List of boxes
• List of acronyms
• Display locations of the archaeological ships and boats
• Introduction - A very special task
• 1. From excavation to conservation
• 1.1 Where will the ship end up?
• 1.2 Reducing damage during salvage and transport
• 1.3 Preparing the ship for conservation
• 2. Wood in its archaeological context
• 2.1 Sound wood
• 2.2 Waterlogged wood
• 3. Two Approaches to the conservation of a ship or boat
• 4. Methods of application of polyethylene glycol
• 4.1 Some surprising laboratory experiments on wood
• 4.2 Scaling up - ships in tanks
• 4.3 One-step or two-step - the range of tank treatments
• 4.4 Pumps and nozzles - spraying treatments
• 4.5 Tank treatment versus spraying - a comparison
• 5. The sucrose method
• 5.1 Sugar in wood - the laboratory experiments
• 5.2 Ships in sugar - case studies
• 6. The Lactitol method
• 6.1 Lactitol in wood - laboratory experiments
• 6.2 Lactitol treatments for large objects
• 7. The Kauramin method by Per Hoffmann and Markus Wittkopper
• 7.1 Melamine in wood - laboratory experiments
• 7.2 Two ships in Kauramin - a case study by Markus Wittkopper
• 8. Freeze-drying of archaeological waterlogged wood by Poul Jensen, Kristiane Straetkvern, Inger Bojesen-Koefoed and David Gregory
• 8.1 The theory of freeze-drying
• 8.2 Freeze-drying processes
• 8.3 Ships in a vacuum chamber
• 9. Choosing the 'best' method from PEG, sucrose, Lactitol and Kauramin
• 9.1 Assessment of the methods taking various factors into account
• 9.2 How to select the most appropriate method
• 10. From conservation to presentation
• 10.1 Cleaning and surface treatment
• 10.2 Restoration and presentation
• 10.3 Foreseeing the future
• 10.4 Long-term care plans by James A. Spriggs
• 11. Do effort and funds pay off in the end?
• References
• Index