Hi Ian,
We don't actually receive the artefacts either, the assessment was done on
material in private hands (mainly divers who had collected it), historical
societies and local maritime museums that don't have conservation
facilities. Basically the results can be summarised as 60% of material in
private custodianship requires interventive conservation, due to previous
lack of conservation treatment. 32% of material was assessed to be stable.
Although what is tending to happen as the old divers drop off the perch (or
sense it coming on) they want to donate their collections to museums
(usually the local ones with no conservaiton facilities/ experience) or
us!
cheers
Ross
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We'll see, Ross, and thanks for the refs. This amnesty is for three months
and
is a paper exercise only. There is no provision for receiving the material
itself.
Ian.
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> Hi Alex,
>
> You and/ or the coordinators of the British Amnesty may be interested in
> some recent studies which have been recently undertaken in Victoria.
These
> are:
>
> Howell-Meurs, Jonathan, July 1999, The representation and significance of
> historic shipwreck material in Amnesty collections: a preliminary
> assessment, Maritime Heritage Unit, Heritage Victoria.
>
> Acton, Karina & Dickens, Jenny, April 2000, Condition assessment:
Historic
> shipwreck material in Amnesty collections, Conservation Laboratory,
> Heritage Victoria.
>
> All in all you're in for an interesting time!! Good luck with it.
>
> regards
> Ross
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