Wet Storage
Waterlogged timber is sound only while it is saturated. Everything in this section is about the interval between exposure and either treatment or reburial.
4 entries · Keeping wood wet, and what drying costs.
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Keeping wood wet
Waterlogged timber survives only while saturated. Lift it and let it dry and it collapses to a fraction of its size.
Consolidation
Replacing water with a wax or sugar that holds the cell walls open.
What drying costs
Shrinkage, warping and the loss of every tool mark on the surface.
Leaving it in the ground
Increasingly the answer: the ground has kept it this long.
How this section is written
Record and interpretation are kept apart
Every entry states what was found and what it is taken to mean as two separate things. Where the dating or the reading is contested, the entry says so rather than choosing for you.
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