ISBN10: 0954402952, ISBN13: 9780954402952, [publisher: Mary Rose Trust, 93] Hardcover First Edition Text in English. 145 pp. The raising of the Mary Rose in 1982 presented huge conservation challenges. During the excavation 26,000 items were removed and the hull itself is the largest archaeological find ever to be conserved. Almost all the items required some kind of scientific treatment to halt the effects of 450 years of burial beneath the Solent and the conservation work turned out to be one of the largest and most complex programmes ever to have been undertaken. For Future Generations provides an introduction to the conservation programme devised for the Mary Rose. It addresses the complexities and problems facing marine archaeological conservationists as well as the processes of decay and degradation and the results of bacterial and animal infestation that affect shipwrecks in general, and the Mary Rose specifically Conservation of the hull required the application of tried and tested techniques of wood conservation on a grand scale but the Mary Rose Trust has also been at the forefront of practical experimentation and has devised innovative methods that are described here. The range of materials needing conservation was huge, including wood, textiles, leather, ceramics, glass, stone, metals, rope, piecet of sail-cloth, and many hundreds of animal and human bones. This volume explains in simple but comprehensive terms the conservation methods for treating and pr ...
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