The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and Henry
VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her contents and most of
her crew to the bottom of the sea. The conservation of the hull of
the Mary Rose, and more than 26,000 objects recovered during her
excavation, has been a massive undertaking. The complex process of
conservation was begun even before the hull was raised from the
seabed in 1982, and continues today. For Future Generations:
Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection is one of the series of
books published by the Mary Rose Trust, with the Heritage Lottery
Fund, on the archaeology of the Mary Rose. It provides an
introduction to the conservation programme devised for the Mary
Rose, and the principles, objectives and problems of marine
archaeological conservation. A huge range of objects were recovered
from the ship, including wood, textiles, leather, ceramics, glass,
stone, metals, rope, pieces of sail-cloth, and many hundreds of
animal and human bones. Almost all objects required some kind of
treatment to halt the effects of 450 years of immersion in
saltwater. This volume explains the conservation methods used for
the treatment and preservation of each major category of material.
It describes the processes of decay and degradation and the results
of bacterial and animal infestation that affect shipwrecks in
general, and the Mary Rose in particular. The variety and immensity
of the task facing the excavators of the Mary Rose was so great
that new methods and treatments had to be devised and tested. It
proved to be ground-breaking work. The conservation work did not
stop with the stabilisation of the hull and objects from the wreck.
Museum display and the continuing storage of most objects presented
their own problems. This volume also describes the design and
construction of specialised display cases, ensuring that the museum
could control and monitor potentially destructive environmental
factors such as light, humidity, heat and atmospheric pollution, as
well as allowing good public access to the objects.
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