Reburial of Organic Archaeological Remains
David Hogan, Mark Jones, Paul Simpson, Edward Maltby, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000099. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000099
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Introduction
The concept of returning archaeological wood to a waterlogged burial environment has now become a serious alternative to cold temperature storage and active conservation. A candidate estuarine wetland site at Firestone Copse, Isle of Wight, was chosen as the focus for this study, with selected complementary studies also undertaken on the Wight coast at Fishbourne Beach (a wreck site currently eroding) and in the Hamble estuary on the Hampshire mainland (a site of preserved wreck remains).
Opportunities should be taken in other wetland archaeological site investigations to test and refine, as appropriate, various aspects of the protocol developed here for the assessment of site suitability for re-burial. Details of the protocol are given in a separate document accompanying this report.
