8th January 2009, 05:16 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Curator Kid
Quote:quote:Originally posted by historic building
I do remember seeing a section somewhere that had been covered with some rubbery-plastic stuff to preserve its face.
Are you sure you weren't watching a Cher video? [xx(]
Not unless it was starring Dominic Powlesland! Dom preserved a few sections at West Hes in the early 80's - technique was to spray the section with rubber solution, nip out of trench, throw lit match in to "dry" the solvent off quickly, check you hadn't lost your eyebrows and 'tache in the resultant fireball, carefully peel off section and take of to the dry of the site hut to draw it. Last time I saw any of the sections they were hanging on the wall in the York Uni archaeology department.
I think Dom got the inspiration from a museum in Germany who, as far as I recall the tale, had a vast hillfort ditch section with some fairly large rocks embedded in it hanging on a wall! Our two metre wide and a meter deep sections must have been relatively simple.