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I am fairly sure i can get hold of them but may take me some time, still working my site report. I think my photos of the plate might be poor plus they were so delicate that they weren't fully excavated and left for the conservators but i can hunt one down off the others who were in my team. As for what it was, that is what i was hoping too although Dr Peter Guest (who ran the dig) thought they may also be from helmet decoration and we did find other fixtures and fittings from helmets but not in that immediate area.
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Can now announce that the stages of the armour and its related objects conservation has begun, both Cardiff University and the National Museum of Wales will be working on it.
Its going to be a long time though...
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Looking forward to the results.
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Quote:sha9cmm:32nb2sd5 Wrote:Can now announce that the stages of the armour and its related objects conservation has begun, both Cardiff University and the National Museum of Wales will be working on it.
Really?
You'd have thought that you'd know that, wouldn't you? :wink:
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I know that they have defiantly started going through the smaller material in the department, don't know about museum really
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I'm sure they will have.
You'll be able to keep an eye on the latest discoveries
Nice to be able to see items you have excavated going through the next stages in the process!
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Don't get your hopes up too high, Guys! This conservation work is going to take a very long time. Not only is there a lot of it (there were some 30 'lifts' altogether) but the whole thing is in a very delicate state. The iron of the armour is entirely rusted and will have to be dug out of the encasing clay very carefully. The X-rays show that there is no actual iron remaining - that's the good news. It means that the armour is in a stable condition and will not deteriorate any further. The less-good news is that the copper alloy fitments are suffering from 'bronze-disease' and will have to be treated as these emerge from the earth mass. This is easy to do (a known technique) but it will have to be done urgently to prevent the fitments from deteriorating any further.
Conservation is a specialist part of archaeology. One of those involved in it will only be able to devote one day a week to the exercise (he has another day-job within the National Museum of Wales) and the others similarly have other responsibilities and ongoing projects. I doubt that we will have any definitive reports for at least two, possibly three years and publication will (inevitably) take even longer. I'm still working on some samian pottery that was dug up in the 1960s and still has not seen the light of day as a publication! Luckily, samian doesn't deteriorate with time - unlike armour fragments!
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Thanks for the blog link.
Spooky, as I was just planning my visit to Caerleon today and was wondering what had happened to the armour.
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