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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 / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The Viking Age wooden artefacts recovered in the early 1900s from the Oseberg mound (Norway) and treated with alum, are today highly degraded. This is due to the effects of the alum-treatment and the reactivity of alum and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
The Oseberg collection includes the most complete ensemble of wooden remains from the Viking Age. However, since many of the wooden objects were treated with alum in the early 1900s, they now suffer from dramatic conservation ...