Ammonium alum in alum-treated wooden artefacts: discovery, origins and consequences

Ammonium alum in alum-treated wooden artefacts: discovery, origins and consequences

Abstract 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 of potassium alum (KAl(SO4)2⋅12H2O). This now obsolete consolidation...

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Main Authors: Caitlin M. A. McQueen, Jeannette J. Łucejko, Ingrid M. T. Flåte, Francesca Modugno, Susan Braovac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-10-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Oseberg find
Alum-treated archaeological wood
Ammonium alum
Potassium alum
FTIR
Microanalysis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0321-7

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