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Conservation of ruins / edited by John Ashurst.

Contributor(s): Ashurst, John.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Elsevier, 2007Description: xlii, 344 p. : ill. col. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0750664290 (hbk.).Subject(s): Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration | Excavations (Archaeology) -- ProtectionDDC classification: 720.0288
Contents:
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.
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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.