• McQueen, Caitlin M A; Łucejko, Jeannette J; Flåte, Ingrid M T; Modugno, Francesca; Braovac, Susan (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 ...
  • Mortensen, Martin; Chaumat, Gilles; Gambineri, Francesca; Kutzke, Hartmut; Lucejko, Jeannette J.; McQueen, Caitlin; Modugno, Francesca; Tamburini, Diego; Taube, Michelle (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Samples of conserved archaeological wood of different ages, origins, and conservation histories were aged in a climate chamber for seven months, while the humidity alternated between 30% RH for 12 hours and 80% RH for 12 ...
  • Łucejko, Jeannette J.; McQueen, Caitlin M. A.; Sahlstedt, Malin; Modugno, Francesca; Colombini, Maria P.; Braovac, Susan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    From the mid-1800s to the late 1960s, conservation by alum salts (KAl(SO4)2·12H2O—potassium aluminium sulphate), using various recipes, was a common method to prevent shrinkage and to strengthen waterlogged archaeological ...
  • Lucejko, Jeannette Jacqueline; de Lamotte, Anne; Andriulo, Fabrizio; Kutzke, Hartmut; Harding, Stephen Ernest; Phillips-Jones, Mary K; Modugno, Francesca; Slaghek, Ted M.; Gosselink, Richard J.A.; Braovac, Susan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    This work is part of a larger study, which aims to use soda lignin from straw as the starting point for a non-aqueous consolidant for highly degraded archaeological wood from the Oseberg collection. This wood was treated ...
  • McQueen, Caitlin; Tamburini, Diego; Łucejko, Jeannette Jacqueline; Braovac, Susan; Gambineri, Francesca; Modugno, Francesca; Colombini, Maria Perla; Kutzke, Hartmut (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 ...
  • Lucejko, Jeannette J.; La Nasa, Jacopo; McQueen, Caitlin; Braovac, Susan; Colombini, Maria Perla; Modugno, Francesca (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 ...