{"product_id":"for-future-generations-book-mark-jones-9781785701559","title":"For Future Generations","description":"The Mary Rose, one of the first great British warships and  Henry VIII's flagship, sank in 1545, taking all her  contents and most of her crew to the bottom of the sea. The  conservation of the hull of the Mary Rose, and more than 26,000  objects recovered during her excavation, has been a massive  undertaking. The complex process of conservation was begun even before the hull was raised from the seabed in 1982, and continues  today. For Future Generations: Conservation of a Tudor Maritime Collection  is one of the series of books published by the Mary Rose Trust, with the Heritage Lottery Fund, on the archaeology of  the Mary Rose. It provides an introduction to the conservation  programme devised for the Mary Rose, and the principles,  objectives and problems of marine archaeological conservation. A  huge range of objects were recovered from the ship, including  wood, textiles, leather, ceramics, glass, stone, metals, rope, pieces of sail-cloth, and many hundreds of animal and human  bones. Almost all objects required some kind of treatment to halt  the effects of 450 years of immersion in saltwater. This  volume explains the conservation methods used for the treatment  and preservation of each major category of material. It describes  the processes of decay and degradation and the results of  bacterial and animal infestation that affect shipwrecks in general, and the Mary Rose in particular. The variety and  immensity of the task facing the excavators of the Mary Rose was  so great that new methods and treatments had to be devised and  tested. It proved to be ground-breaking work. The conservation  work did not stop with the stabilisation of the hull and objects  from the wreck. Museum display and the continuing storage of most  objects presented their own problems. This volume also describes  the design and construction of specialised display cases,  ensuring that the museum could control and monitor potentially destructive environmental factors such as light, humidity, heat  and atmospheric pollution, as well as allowing good public access  to the objects.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539576791313,"sku":"GOR009697025","price":14.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/178570155X.jpg?v=1751185096","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/for-future-generations-book-mark-jones-9781785701559","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}