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Heike Voßmerbäumer: | Treated bone objects as the conservator sees it | Back |
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Abstract: | The subject of my dissertation was the conservation and restoration of two composite antler combs from an early medieval cemetery near Herrenberg, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Often, such objects are consolidated when being excavated from damp soils to avoid the formation of cracks and the build-up of mechanical stress during drying. In this context, I attempted to compare the effectivness of synthetic consolidants and adhesives being used for collagen-based historical artifacts using questionnaires from various museums and conservation laboratories in Germany, England and Denmark, as well as the current literature, as the bases for critical comparison. A further subject of the dissertation was the attempt to apply Raman-Spectroscopy as a scientific method to determine the degree of deterioration of the artifacts in a more objective manner than the usual subjective, visual judgements could allow. |
Keywords: | Early Middle Ages, composite antler comb, wet consolidating, Raman-Spectroscopy |
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