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Had to pick between two dig sites for my summer field school
It was either a Roman villa in southern France or a Viking settlement in Norway. I went with Norway because the professor said we'd be working with preserved wood artifacts. The first week we found a carved wooden bowl that still had food residue on it. Has anyone else worked on a wet site like that and have tips for dealing with the wood?
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skyler_johnson327d ago
My buddy worked a bog site in Ireland and they pulled up a whole wooden butter churn. The real trick they found was using a spray bottle with the same bog water to keep the surface damp during transport. They had a cooler full of wet towels as a backup plan too. Apparently the pH of the water you store it in at first can make a huge difference. His team lost a few smaller pieces to mold before they got the mix right in their holding tanks.
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tessap978d ago
Wet wood can be such a headache to stabilize. I had a piece that warped badly before we got it into the right solution. Keeping everything wet until you're in the lab is the only thing that worked for us.
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