Ancient & Historic Metals Conservation and Scientific Research

The sixteen essays in this volume reflect a wide range of research concerning methods for metals conservation, particularly in respect to ancient and historic objects. The variety of issues discussed includes considerations in the cleaning of ancient bronze vessels the processes involved in bronze casting, finishing, patination, and corrosion studies of manufacturing techniques of gold objects in ancient African and medieval European metalworking techniques of mercury gilding in the 18th century an investigation of patina in the classification of bronze surfaces from land and lake environments an examination of bronze objects from the Benin Kingdom, Nigeria the history of restoration of the Marcus Aurelius monument in Rome the corrosion of iron in architecture and applications of radiographic tomography to the study of metal objects.