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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Oxygen consumption measurement was used to study potential oxidative degradation reactions occurring in wooden artefacts from the Viking age Oseberg collection in Norway. Model samples of fresh birch were impregnated with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Alum-treated wooden artefacts from the Oseberg collection display a great deal of morphological, structural and compositional inhomogeneity. Thus, an in-depth understanding of chemical processes underlying their degradation ...
(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 / 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 ...
(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 ...