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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Alum-treatment was extensively applied to archaeological wood from the Oseberg collection in the early 1900s, and was a common conservation method at the time involving impregnating objects with hot concentrated solutions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
From the mid-1800s to the late 1950s, conservation by alum salts (aluminum potassium sulfate dodecahydrate)—with some variations—was a routine method for treating highly deteriorated waterlogged archaeological wood in many ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Alum-treated wooden artefacts suffer from extreme deterioration, and the stability of these objects and the salts they contain to variations in climate conditions is an important issue. Responses of potassium alum ...