Conservation of ruins /
edited by John Ashurst.
- Boston, MA : Elsevier, 2007.
- xlii, 344 p. : ill. col. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgement - List of contributors - Foreword - Figure credits - Preface - Introduction-continuity and truth - Short story - The demise, discovery, destruction and salvation of a ruin - 1. Conservation concepts - 2. Stability and survival - 3. Condition surveys of masonry ruins - 4. Philosophy, technology and craft - 5. Preventive conservation of ruins: reconstruction, reburial and enclosure - 6. The ecology of ruin sites - 7. Submerged ruins - 8. Implementing conservation works on ruins - 9. Interpretation and display of ruins and sites - 10. Case studies - Appendix - Index.
0750664290 (hbk.)
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Protection.
720.0288 / CON
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgement - List of contributors - Foreword - Figure credits - Preface - Introduction-continuity and truth - Short story - The demise, discovery, destruction and salvation of a ruin - 1. Conservation concepts - 2. Stability and survival - 3. Condition surveys of masonry ruins - 4. Philosophy, technology and craft - 5. Preventive conservation of ruins: reconstruction, reburial and enclosure - 6. The ecology of ruin sites - 7. Submerged ruins - 8. Implementing conservation works on ruins - 9. Interpretation and display of ruins and sites - 10. Case studies - Appendix - Index.
0750664290 (hbk.)
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Protection.
720.0288 / CON