Re-evaluating the Monitoring of the Shardlow Log Boat

Autor: Claire Bark, Brian Shaw, Dave Barrett, Paul Lagram, Gary Coates, Bob Woodbridge, Jim Williams, James Dodds
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. 18:254-265
ISSN: 1753-5522
1350-5033
DOI: 10.1080/13505033.2016.1182760
Popis: Following the discovery of a Bronze Age log boat in Shardlow Quarry, Derbyshire in 2003, a scheme was devised to preserve this boat in situ. This included a monitoring programme to ensure that reducing conditions were maintained. This solution was agreed by the mineral planning authority Derbyshire County Council, with input and advice from English Heritage.Monitoring lasted ten years, during which time gravel deposits surrounding the boat were extracted. The boat was protected from dewatering during this time by a clay cut-off, installed around the area containing the boat before extraction begun. After extraction the adjacent areas were backfilled with on-site soils and inert waste.Data indicate that a reducing environment has been largely sustained during this period. Following careful and considered discussion, the monitoring programme ceased as there was unlikely to be further impacts to site hydrology, making additional data collection redundant.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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